US Patent Issued to National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Otsuka Medical Devices on Aug. 5 for "Temperature rise evaluation apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,262, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (Tokyo) and Otsuka Medical Devices Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Temperature rise evaluation apparatus" was invented by Ryo Takagi (Ibaraki, Japan) and Koji Inui (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for evaluating a treatment device capable of radiating ultrasound for cauterizing human tissue, the system including: simulated tissue having a property that hue changes according to temperature in a particular temperature-sensitive area and simulating temperature change of human tissue at time of the human tissue receiving the ultrasound...