ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,427,334, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Avava Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).
"Feedback detection for a treatment device" was invented by Jayant Bhawalkar (Auburndale, Mass.), Rajender Katkam (Boston), Lewis J. Levine (Marlborough, Mass.) and Charles Holland Dresser (Wayland, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to some embodiments, a system for fractionally treating tissue includes: an electromagnetic radiation (EMR) source configured to generate an EMR beam having a transverse ring energy profile; an optic configured to converge the EMR beam to a focal region located within a tissue; and, a window assembly located down-beam from...