US Patent Issued to INSIGHTEC on March 11 for "Pre-treatment tissue sensitization for focused ultrasound procedures" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,246,195, issued on March 11, was assigned to INSIGHTEC LTD. (Tirat Carmel, Israel).

"Pre-treatment tissue sensitization for focused ultrasound procedures" was invented by Yoav Levy (Hinanit, Israel), Israel Schuster (Kiryat Tivon, Israel) and Shahar Rinott (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for treating target tissue include generating a priming sequence of sonication pulses for delivering acoustic energy to the target tissue; pausing generation of the sonication pulses for a delay interval; and generating a series of treatment sequences of sonication pulses for delivering acoustic energy to the target tis...