ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,429, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Gyrus ACMI Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).

"Monitoring liquid medium conditions proximate a laser lithotripsy treatment area in real time" was invented by Vladimir Polejaev (Middletown, Conn.) and Kurt G. Shelton (Bedford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and methods for monitoring a condition associated with a medium proximate a target region. The system comprising a surgical laser, a surgical fiber coupled to the surgical laser for delivering laser light to a target region and receiving at least a portion of the laser light reflected from the target region. The sys...