ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,224, issued on July 7, was assigned to SONIVIE LTD. (Rosh Haayin, Israel).

"Devices and methods for pulmonary hypertension treatment" was invented by Ariel Sverdlik (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Or Shabtay (Kibbutz Farod, Israel) and Lilah Marziano (Ganei-Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention in some embodiments thereof relates to a method for selectively modifying nerve activity without causing substantial damage to non-targeted tissue, comprising introducing a catheter device comprising one or more ultrasonic transceivers to the pulmonary artery lumen, receiving, using the one or more ultrasonic transceivers, echo...