US Patent Issued to Universite de Bordeaux, INSERM (Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale), Fondation Bordeaux Universite on Sept. 8 for "Heat treatment assembly" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,945, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Universite de Bordeaux (Bordeaux, France), INSERM (Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale) (Paris) and Fondation Bordeaux Universite (Bordeaux, France).

"Heat treatment assembly" was invented by Bruno Quesson (Cestas, France), Valery Ozenne (Talence, France) and Pierre Bour (Marcheprime, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An assembly for heat-treatment of biological tissue comprises: a thermal energy generator; an energy applicator; an MRI image acquisition device for generating anatomical images and phase images; a planning unit comprising an MRI image processing means fo...