US Patent Issued to Gyrus ACMI on April 22 for "Laser fiber varying lateral position and intensity" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,812, issued on April 22, was assigned to Gyrus ACMI Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).

"Laser fiber varying lateral position and intensity" was invented by Kurt G. Shelton (Bedford, Mass.), Masayasu Chida (Tokyo), Sergey A. Bukesov (Acton, Mass.), Brian M. Talbot (Southborough, Mass.) and Vladimir Polejaev (Middletown, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lithotripsy or other medical laser treatment system can include a lateral actuator to laterally displace a distal portion of a laser fiber, such as can be scanned or otherwise controlled to generate a spatial or spatiotemporal sub-targeting pattern without requiring laterally moving an end...