US Patent Issued to METAL INDUSTRIES RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CENTRE on Feb. 10 for "Device for ultrasound assisted thrombolysis" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,085, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to METAL INDUSTRIES RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT CENTRE (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

"Device for ultrasound assisted thrombolysis" was invented by Wei-Hung Shih (Kaohsiung, Taiwan) and Bo-Wei Pan (Kaohsiung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for ultrasound assisted thrombolysis includes a catheter, a first ultrasound module, a second ultrasound module and a controller. The first and second ultrasound modules are mounted in the catheter and electrically connected to the controller. The first ultrasound module is provided to transmit ultrasonic waves toward a thrombus to assist thrombolysis. The seco...