ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,295, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to SONIRE THERAPEUTICS INC. (Tokyo).

"Ultrasonic therapeutic device" was invented by Kazuhito Nemoto (Tokyo) and Tsuyoshi Ueyama (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The purpose of the present invention is to facilitate confirmation that an affected part has been accurately irradiated with therapeutic ultrasonic waves in therapy using an ultrasonic therapeutic device. A control unit executes a therapeutic ultrasonic wave transmission process, an irradiation region image generation process, and a B-mode image generation process. The therapeutic ultrasonic wave transmission process causes an ultras...