ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,382, issued on July 15, was assigned to Gyrus ACMI Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).
"Laser treatment using acoustic feedback" was invented by Vladimir Polejaev (Middletown, Conn.), Sergey A. Bukesov (Acton, Mass.) and Kurt G. Shelton (Bedford, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for automatic control of laser treatment of target structure in a body of a subject based on acoustic feedback in response to delivery of laser energy to the target are disclosed. An exemplary laser energy delivery system comprises a laser system to direct laser energy at a body target, and a controller circuit to receive an acoustic ...