US Patent Issued to Sonivie on July 22 for "Ultrasound transducer and uses thereof" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,501, issued on July 22, was assigned to Sonivie Ltd. (Rosh HaAyin, Israel).

"Ultrasound transducer and uses thereof" was invented by Ariel Sverdlik (Tel-Aviv, Israel) and Or Shabtay (Kibbutz Farod, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments there is provided a method for controlling a treatment effect on blood vessel tissue during an ultrasonic treatment, the method comprising positioning an ultrasonic transducer device in the blood vessel lumen; controlling a treatment effect by controlling fluid flow, wherein controlling comprises deploying a fluid restrictor at a location relative to the transducer effecti...