US Patent Issued to STORZ MEDICAL on Sept. 9 for "Shock wave device having a source self aligning with an X-ray device" (Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,408,935, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to STORZ MEDICAL AG (Tagerwilen, Switzerland).

"Shock wave device having a source self aligning with an X-ray device" was invented by Rafael Storz (Tagerwilen, Switzerland), Ernst Marlinghaus (Bottighofen, Switzerland), Georg Gorner (Landschlacht, Switzerland), Arvid Kuhl (Tagerwilen, Switzerland) and Felix Gremlich (Tagerwilen, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shock wave and/or ultrasound therapy system includes an ultra-sound and/or shockwave source suspended on a hexapod drive and an X-ray system. A system controller configured to generate control signals for the hexapod drive to a...