US Patent Issued to Curative Sound on Aug. 5 for "Handheld focused extracorporeal shock wave therapy device, kit, and method" (Indiana, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,017, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Curative Sound LLC (Carmel, Ind.).

"Handheld focused extracorporeal shock wave therapy device, kit, and method" was invented by James V. Olson Jr. (Indianapolis), Joshua James Barr (Bangor, Mich.), Jeffrey Phillip McAteer (Carmel, Ind.) and Randal Douglas Wood (New Palestine, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of generating a focused shock wave with a handheld focused extracorporeal shock wave therapy (f-ESWT) device includes driving a plurality of piezoelectric elements to generate a focused shock wave based on a first plurality of time delays when a first standoff structure is removab...