US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on Sept. 30 for "Multi-functional sparse phased arrays for guiding focused ultrasound therapies" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,344, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Multi-functional sparse phased arrays for guiding focused ultrasound therapies" was invented by Fahrettin Levent Degertekin (Atlanta) and Costas Arvanitis (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Multifunctional ultrasound systems and methods for body section registration and mapping of microbubble dynamics. A system is provided that includes one or more micromachined ultrasonic transducer arrays (MUTAs) configured to capture a high-resolution image of at least a portion of a body section using ultrasound and monitor microbubble activity during ultrasoun...