US Patent Issued to Otsuka Medical Devices on July 21 for "Transmitting acoustic and electromagnetic signals from a catheter balloon" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,585, issued on July 21, was assigned to Otsuka Medical Devices Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Transmitting acoustic and electromagnetic signals from a catheter balloon" was invented by Liang Zhai (Belmont, Calif.), Eric Dailey (San Jose, Calif.), James D. Mazzone (San Jose, Calif.), Desmond Cheung (San Jose, Calif.) and Shruthi Thirumalai (Fremont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A catheter comprising a transducer located in an interior of a balloon, the transducer configured to transmit an acoustic signal at an operational frequency that provides an acoustic field with multiple lobes along a longitudinal axis of the transducer. Each of th...