US Patent Issued to HistoSonics on Sept. 23 for "Histotripsy systems and methods" (Michigan, Pennsylvania, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,420,118, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to HistoSonics Inc. (Plymouth, Minn.).

"Histotripsy systems and methods" was invented by Ryan M. Miller (Saline, Mich.), Alexander P. Duryea (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Jonathan M. Cannata (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Zeljko Mladenovic (Orefield, Pa.), Dejan Teofilovic (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Aleksandra Rakic (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Joshua Stopek (Minneapolis).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A histotripsy therapy system configured for the treatment of tissue is provided, which may include any number of features. Provided herein are systems and methods that provide efficacious non-invasive and minimally invasive therape...