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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 21, 2026
Filed:
Jul. 18, 2022
Otsuka Medical Devices Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Liang Zhai, Belmont, CA (US);
Eric Dailey, San Jose, CA (US);
James D. Mazzone, San Jose, CA (US);
Desmond Cheung, San Jose, CA (US);
Shruthi Thirumalai, Fremont, CA (US);
Otsuka Medical Devices Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A catheter comprising a transducer located in an interior of a balloon, the transducer configured to transmit an acoustic signal at an operational frequency that provides an acoustic field with multiple lobes along a longitudinal axis of the transducer. Each of the lobes has a spatial intensity distribution at a surface of the balloon and parallel to a surface of the transducer which comprises a spatial intensity maximum and one or more reduced spatial acoustic intensity locations where the spatial intensity of the acoustic field of the transducer is 50% or less of a value of one of the spatial intensity maxima, where the reduced locations are between the spatial intensity maxima and adjacent to one another along the longitudinal axis of then transducer. The catheter further comprises at least an electrode configured to transmit an electromagnetic signal, the electrode being positioned on the balloon at one of the reduced spatial acoustic intensity locations of the transducer.