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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 20, 2003
Filed:
Feb. 23, 1999
Applicant:
Inventor:
Michael John Radley Young, Ashburton, GB;
Assignee:
Orthosonics Ltd., Ashburton South Devon, GB;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 7/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61N 7/00 ;
Abstract
The method and apparatus of the invention are directed to surgically non-invasively treating skeleto/muscular injuries or of diagnosing bone fractures, involving application of two components of ultrasonic energy, to an external surface of living tissue, wherein the two components are of different frequencies in the range between 10 kHz and 4 MHz, and wherein separate transducers, each uniquely supplied with an excitation signal at a different one of the same two frequencies, are directionally disposed for acoustic propagation on the same directional axis.