ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,619, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SONOSEMI MEDICAL Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Discharge controllable shock wave balloon catheter system" was invented by Bin Liu (Shenzhen, China), Jun Hu (Shenzhen, China), Linsheng Hong (Shenzhen, China) and Bin Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present application provides a discharge controllable shock wave balloon catheter system, which includes a shock wave therapy main unit (1), a balloon (2), a catheter, and a plurality of electrode pairs (6); an end of the catheter is arranged passing through the balloon (2), and an other end of the catheter is connected to the shock...