US Patent Issued to KARL STORZ on July 1 for "Method for determining an optimal frequency of an oscillating movement of a force-accelerated projectile of an intracorporeal lithotripsy apparatus" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,343,025, issued on July 1, was assigned to KARL STORZ SE & Co. KG (Tuttlingen, Germany).

"Method for determining an optimal frequency of an oscillating movement of a force-accelerated projectile of an intracorporeal lithotripsy apparatus" was invented by Thomas Hinding (Tuttlingen, Germany) and Bernhard Gloggler (Tuttlingen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a method for determining an optimal frequency of an oscillating movement of a force-accelerated projectile of an intracorporeal pneumatic lithotripsy apparatus, including the following steps: repeatedly accelerating the projectile from a first proximal st...