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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2022

Filed:

Nov. 07, 2018
Applicant:

Endra Life Sciences Inc., Ann Arbor, MI (US);

Inventors:

Christopher Nelson Davis, Ann Arbor, MI (US);

Jang Hwan Cho, Ann Arbor, MI (US);

Paul A. Picot, London, CA;

Michael M. Thornton, London, CA;

Assignee:

ENDRA Life Sciences Inc., Ann Arbor, MI (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/20 (2006.01); A61B 5/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 5/0093 (2013.01); A61B 5/02007 (2013.01); A61B 5/201 (2013.01); A61B 5/4244 (2013.01); A61B 5/4872 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system for enhancing radio frequency energy delivery to a tissue region of interest. The method and system direct with a radio frequency (RF) applicator, one or more RF energy pulses into the tissue region of interest, the tissue region of interest comprising an object of interest and at least one reference that are separated by at least one boundary; detect with an acoustic receiver, at least one bipolar acoustic signal generated in the tissue region of interest in response to the RF energy pulses and processing the at least one bipolar acoustic signal to determine a peak-to-peak amplitude thereof; adjust the RF applicator to maximize the peak-to-peak amplitude of bipolar acoustic signals generated in the tissue region of interest in response to RF energy pulses generated by the adjusted RF applicator; and direct with the adjusted RF applicator, one or more RF energy pulses into the region of interest.


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