US Patent Issued to Shockwave Medical on June 2 for "Burst mode operation of intravascular lithotripsy (IVL)" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,545, issued on June 2, was assigned to Shockwave Medical Inc. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Burst mode operation of intravascular lithotripsy (IVL)" was invented by Thomas Charles Hasenberg (Campbell, Calif.) and Timothy Dominic Logsdon (Livermore, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for applying voltage(s) across electrodes of a shock wave catheter system. The electrodes in the shock wave catheter may be activated by using at least one packet comprising a plurality of sub-pulses. The plurality of sub-pulses within a packet may be delivered in rapid succession (e.g., with a frequency of 100 Hz-10 k...