ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,194, issued on March 11, was assigned to CARTHERA (Lyons, France).
"Method and system for detecting a fault in acoustic coupling between an ultrasonic device and a tissue to be treated" was invented by Guillaume Bouchoux (Villeurbanne, France), Matthieu Cholvy (Peage de Roussillon, France) and Cyril Martin (Lyons, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an apparatus for treating a pathology, comprising: an ultrasonic generation device (1), a remote control unit (2) to supply electricity to the device (1), electrical connection means (31, 32) between the device (1) and the control unit (2),remarkable in...