US Patent Issued to Avignon Universite, CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE-CNRS, INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE, Sorbonne Universite, UNIVERSITE DE MONTPELLIER, ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DE CHIMIE DE MONTPELLIER on March 18 for "Emulsion for ultrasound ablation surgery" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,451, issued on March 18, was assigned to Avignon Universite (Avignon, France), CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE-CNRS (Paris), INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA SANTE ET DE LA RECHERCHE MEDICALE (Paris), Sorbonne Universite (Paris), UNIVERSITE DE MONTPELLIER (Montpellier, France) and ECOLE NATIONALE SUPERIEURE DE CHIMIE DE MONTPELLIER (Montpellier, France).

"Emulsion for ultrasound ablation surgery" was invented by Christiane Contino-Pepin (Althen des Paluds, France), Stephane Desgranges (Avignon, France) and Nicolas Taulier (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present description relates to an injectable emulsion comprising a...