US Patent Issued to THERACLION on April 29 for "Method and device for treating varicose veins by application of high-intensity focused ultrasound" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,285,637, issued on April 29, was assigned to THERACLION SA (Malakoff, France).

"Method and device for treating varicose veins by application of high-intensity focused ultrasound" was invented by Jeremie Anquez (Paris), Anthony Grisey (Saint Cyr l'Ecole, France) and Michel Nuta (Gentilly, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention is directed to a method of non-invasively treating a varicose vein (2), for example the Great saphenous vein (GSV), wherein the vein or the vein system to be treated is divided into sections (6a, 6b, 6c, 6d) with a length (11) separated by a spacing (s1). The sections can be pre-defined before the treatm...