US Patent Issued to ACOUSTIIC on Dec. 9 for "Generating histotripsy therapy pulses using full cycle transmit" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,491,383, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to ACOUSTIIC INC. (Bellevue, Wash.).

"Generating histotripsy therapy pulses using full cycle transmit" was invented by Paul Reynolds (Renton, Wash.) and Holly Lay (Seattle).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are provided for generating histotripsy therapy pulses using full cycle transmit. A system may include a transducer array may include transducer elements, a computing and imaging device, and drive electronics positioned so that traces from the drive electronics to the transducer elements of the transducer array are no more than 5 cm in length. The drive electronics may be place...