US Patent Issued to Sofwave Medical on May 26 for "Contour-adaptive ultrasound system for fat tissue treatment" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,522, issued on May 26, was assigned to Sofwave Medical Ltd. (Yokneam Illit, Israel).

"Contour-adaptive ultrasound system for fat tissue treatment" was invented by Ariel Sverdlik (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Shimon Eckhouse (Haifa, Israel) and Assaf Gelstein (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for treating fat tissue, including: an ultrasound applicator, including: two or more ultrasound transducers configured to generate and direct ultrasonic waves to a selected tissue volume including fat tissue; a control unit, including: a control circuitry electrically connected to the two or more ultrasound transducers, wherein the cont...