US Patent Issued to Gyrus ACMI on Nov. 25 for "Anti-clogging during calculi evacuation" (Minnesota, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,393, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Gyrus ACMI Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).

"Anti-clogging during calculi evacuation" was invented by Charles Baker (Rogers, Minn.), Susanna L. Mayo (Boston), Arthur J. Bertelson (Buffalo, Minn.) and Eric Stender (Champlin, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lithotripsy system can include a lithotripsy device and controller circuitry. The device for acoustic calculi fracture can include an acoustic treatment probe for providing acoustic energy along the probe to treat one or more calculi and an evacuation pathway extending at least partially via the prob, for removing at least a portion of the on...