ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,402,945, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Systems and methods for laser pulse monitoring and calibration" was invented by Baocheng Yang (Fremont, Calif.), Xirong Yang (Fremont, Calif.), Peter Bull (San Jose, Calif.), Brian Cheng (San Jose, Calif.), Rongwei Jason Xuan (Fremont, Calif.), Jian James Zhang (Lancaster, Mass.), Thomas Charles Hasenberg (Campbell, Calif.) and David Pih (Milpitas, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical laser system for outputting laser pulses includes at least one laser cavity configured to generate at least one laser pulse, a rotating mirror config...