ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,297, issued on April 29, was assigned to MOON POOL LLC (Chatsworth, Calif.).

"Personal use extracorporeal low intensity shock wave device tip force detection and annunciation means and methods for using same" was invented by Jonathan Hoffman (Studio City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tip force monitoring and annunciation means which permits maintaining proper tip pressure during treatment of self-applied acoustic wave treatment for various parts of the user's body by an untrained user. The several embodiments of the disclosure employ designs, materials, and manufacturing methods which are inexpensive and consistent with cur...