ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,160, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Sonivie Ltd. (Rosh Haayin, Israel).
"Tissue treatment" was invented by Ariel Sverdlik (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Yehuda Zadok (Holon, Israel), Or Shabtay (Kibbutz Farod, Israel), Iris Szwarcfiter (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Avital Schauder (Lod, Israel) and Krishna J. Rocha-Singh (Springfield, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the invention a method and/or a device of treating tissue near a first lumen comprising inserting an energy emission element into a second lumen and delivering energy in an amount sufficient to cause one or more spaced apar...