US Patent Issued to University of Kansas, The Regents of the University of Michigan on Feb. 17 for "Method and apparatus for removing microvessels" (Michigan, Kansas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,732, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kan.) and The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Method and apparatus for removing microvessels" was invented by Xinmai Yang (Lawrence, Kan.), Xueding Wang (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Yannis M. Paulus (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of removing microvessels includes applying a burst of acoustic energy at a target location, applying a pulse of optical energy at the target location, and promoting cavitation at the target location by synchronizing an arrival of the burst of acoustic energy and the optical energy at the ta...