ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,616, issued on June 10, was assigned to Gyrus ACMI Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).

"Tissue therapy energy delivery using optical imaging" was invented by Kester Julian Batchelor (Mound, Minn.), Teo Heng Jimmy Yang (Heath, Great Britain), Takeshi Onaga (Medina, Minn.) and Jordan R. Golomb (Maple Grove, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for imaging and treating tissue can include or use an imaging sensor adapted to receive imaging information from a location internal to a human or animal subject, a tissue therapy output for applying a tissue therapy to tissue at the location internal to the subject, and controller circuitry, com...