ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,589,263, issued on March 31, was assigned to SHANGHAI UNITED IMAGING HEALTHCARE Co. LTD. (Shanghai).

"Therapeutic focused ultrasound systems and methods having treatment blocks that are rotatable around reference axis for independent phase and amplitude control" was invented by Yujie Chen (Wuhan, China) and Kang Si (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A therapeutic ultrasound system may be provided. The therapeutic ultrasound system may comprise a therapeutic ultrasound probe. The therapeutic ultrasound probe may comprise treatment blocks each of which includes one or more ultrasonic transducer arrays. Each of the one or more ultras...