US Patent Issued to Gyrus ACMI on June 17 for "Optical splitter for laser surgical systems with overheating protection" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,450, issued on June 17, was assigned to Gyrus ACMI Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).

"Optical splitter for laser surgical systems with overheating protection" was invented by 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 identifying a target in vivo are disclosed. A target identification system for use in electrosurgery includes a probe, an optical splitter, and a spectroscopy system. The probe includes an optical pathway to pass a first optical signal to an anatomical target and at least a portion of a second optical signal from the anatomical target. T...