ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,188, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to OXSONICS Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).
"Mapping of cavitation activity" was invented by Christian Coviello (Oxford, Great Britain), Constantin Coussios (Oxford, Great Britain), Sean Finn (County Mayo, Ireland) and Edward Jackson (Kenilworth, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for imaging cavitation in a subject volume includes a plurality of transducer elements and a control means. The control means controls a first transducer element to generate ultrasound having a focal region, receive passive detection signals from a first group of the transducer elements and generate ...