US Patent Issued to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL, HNT MEDICAL on Oct. 20 for "Shock wave lithotripsy device having breathing trigger function" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,903, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL (Seoul, South Korea) and HNT MEDICAL Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Shock wave lithotripsy device having breathing trigger function" was invented by Sung Yong Cho (Seoul, South Korea), Jae Hak Jeong (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea) and Sung Joung Jeon (Gyeonggi-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shock wave lithotripsy device includes a shock wave generation unit that irradiates shock waves to a stone in the body of a patient, a trigger information generation unit that generates trigger information at a time point in a breathing cycle when a focus, whi...