US Patent Issued to Curative Sound on June 17 for "Handheld focused extracorporeal shock wave therapy device, kit, and method" (Indiana Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,712, issued on June 17, 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), Jeffrey Phillip McAteer (Carmel, Ind.), Samuel C. Welsh (Fishers, Ind.) and Randal Douglas Wood (New Palestine, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A handheld focused extracorporeal shock wave therapy (f-ESWT) device includes a plurality of piezoelectric elements, a power supply circuit, and a plurality of driver circuits. The piezoelectric elements are each configured to generate an individual shock wave. The power supply circuit is ...