US Patent Issued to University of Washington on Sept. 22 for "Treatment planning and aberration correction algorithms for high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation of soft tissue targets" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,740,763, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to University of Washington (Seattle).

"Treatment planning and aberration correction algorithms for high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) ablation of soft tissue targets" was invented by Tatiana D. Khokhlova (Seattle), Vera A. Khokhlova (Seattle), Pavel Rosnitskiy (Seattle) and Oleg A. Sapozhnikov (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Treatment planning and aberration correction algorithms for high intensity focused ultrasound (Hifu) ablation of soft tissue targets, and associated systems and methods are described. In one embodiment, a method for planning a sonication treatment of a target ...