US Patent Issued to Candela on Oct. 28 for "Fractional handpiece with a passively Q-switched laser assembly" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,848, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Candela Corp. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Fractional handpiece with a passively Q-switched laser assembly" was invented by Xiaoming Shang (Lexington, Mass.), Hui Liu (Boston), Craig Langlois (Clinton, Mass.) and Kevin Schomacker (Maynard, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fractional handpiece and systems thereof for skin treatment include a passively Q-switched laser assembly operatively connected to a pump laser source to receive a pump laser beam having a first wavelength and a beam splitting assembly operable to split a solid beam emitted by the passively Q-switched laser assembly and form a...