US Patent Issued to SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE on Feb. 3 for "Systems and methods for treating vascular occlusions with catheter based ultrasound" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,128, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Toronto).

"Systems and methods for treating vascular occlusions with catheter based ultrasound" was invented by David Goertz (Toronto), Kullervo Hynynen (Toronto) and Alex Wright (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method is provided for generating ultrasound at the tip of an intravascular catheter. This may be used for the treatment of vascular occlusions, including chronic total occlusions (CTOs) and thrombotic occlusions (e.g., deep vein thrombosis, stroke, myocardial infarction). For instance, the systems and methods may be used to induce cavita...