ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,134, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to Sonire Therapeutics Inc. (Tokyo).
"Ultrasonic therapeutic apparatus" was invented by Shin Yoshizawa (Miyagi, Japan) and Nao Yoshida (Miyagi, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is aimed toward facilitating confirmation that an affected area has been sonicated with therapeutic ultrasonic waves in a treatment performed using an ultrasonic therapeutic apparatus. During therapeutic ultrasound transmitting processing, an ultrasonic transducer is caused to transmit the therapeutic ultrasonic wave. During sonicated-region image generating processing, after the therapeutic ultrason...