US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Michigan, North Carolina State University, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on May 26 for "Methods and systems for using phase change nanodroplets to enhance sonothrombolysis" (North Carolina, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,974, issued on May 26, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.), North Carolina State University (Raleigh, N.C.) and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, N.C.).

"Methods and systems for using phase change nanodroplets to enhance sonothrombolysis" was invented by Paul Alexander Dayton (Carrboro, N.C.), Jinwook Kim (Chapel Hill, N.C.), Xiaoning Jiang (Cary, N.C.) and Zhen Xu (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for using metastable perfluorocarbon nanodroplets for ultrasonic lysis of blood clots includes administering metastable perfluorocarbon nanodroplet...