US Patent Issued to Gyrus ACMI on July 15 for "Real-time composition analysis techniques for ultrasonic ablation" (Massachusetts, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,329, issued on July 15, was assigned to Gyrus ACMI Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).

"Real-time composition analysis techniques for ultrasonic ablation" was invented by Jeffrey M. Schmitt (Bolton, Mass.), Sergey A. Bukesov (Acton, Mass.), Charles Baker (Rogers, Minn.) and Kurt G. Shelton (Bedford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A composition of a biological sample, such as tissue of a patient, can be estimated during an ablation procedure. A composition detector system can include a probe, an illumination source, and a spectrometer. A distal end of a probe can convey mechanical, acoustical, or ultrasonic energy to the tissue to ablate...