ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,978, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Sofwave Medical Ltd. (Yokneam Illit, Israel).

"Fat tissue treatment" was invented by Ariel Sverdlik (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Shimon Eckhouse (Haifa, Israel) and Assaf Gelstein (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for treating fat tissue, including: an ultrasound applicator, including: two or more ultrasound transducers configured to generate and direct ultrasonic waves to a selected tissue volume including fat tissue; a control unit, including: a control circuitry electrically connected to the two or more ultrasound transducers, wherein the control circuitry is configured to activa...