ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,296,203, issued on May 13, was assigned to THERACLION SA (Malakoff, France).
"Method for treating a patient with HIFU" was invented by Jeremie Anquez (Paris), Anthony Grisey (Saint Cyr l'Ecole, France) and Bjorn Gerold (Versailles, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of performing a heat treatment of blood vessels (6), such as varicose veins, in order to coagulate the vessel walls (2). Bubbles (4) are selectively created in the blood (3), such that the formation of blood coagula is avoided during the treatment due to cavitation (5)."
The patent was filed on June 17, 2020, under Application No. 17/619,692.
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