ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,328, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Laser systems and methods" was invented by Honggang Yu (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Laser systems and methods are disclosed. One laser system comprises: a plurality of laser resonators, each resonator being operable to discharge an input laser beam; a relay assembly including at least one curved reflective surface that redirects each input laser beam, and reduces a beam size of the redirected beam; a galvo including a curved reflective surface that receives each redirected beam, and outputs a combined laser beam at power lev...