US Patent Issued to THERACLION on Feb. 4 for "Device and method for treatment of a patient by high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU)" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,213,832, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to THERACLION SA (Malakoff, France).

"Device and method for treatment of a patient by high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU)" was invented by Jeremie Anquez (Paris) and Anthony Grisey (Saint Cyr l'Ecole, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device (1) and a method to avoid artefacts in second circulation mode imaging during ultrasound treatments of the human body (P). Specifically and amongst other effects, the invention provides a way to adequately control, in particular turn on and off, the fluid circulation (12) in a cavity (7) such as to avoid artefacts while still ...