ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,880, issued on July 22, was assigned to Guided Therapy Systems LLC (Scottsdale, Ariz.).
"Method for mid-intensity, non-ablative acoustic treatment of injured tissue" was invented by Michael H. Slayton (Phoenix).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for mid-intensity non-ablative acoustic treatment of injured tissue is disclosed. The method involves continuously moving an ultrasound probe across an extracorporeal skin surface while emitting non-ablative therapeutic ultrasound into the injured tissue in a non-ablative therapeutic ultrasound beam profile. The method terminates energy delivery if movement speed is below a speed threshol...