US Patent Issued to Gyrus ACMI on Feb. 11 for "Target identification with optical feedback signal splitter" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,220,166, issued on Feb. 11, was assigned to Gyrus ACMI Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).

"Target identification with optical feedback signal splitter" was invented by Sergey A. Bukesov (Acton, Mass.), Kurt G. Shelton (Bedford, Mass.) and Brian M. Talbot (Southborough, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A probe of a target identification system can be extended via a first lumen of a viewing instrument, such as for illuminating an area beyond a distal end of the viewing instrument via an optical path of the viewing instrument. An optical response to the illumination of the area can be received via an optical path of the probe and can be split f...