US Patent Issued to Gyrus ACMI on Oct. 14 for "Laser fiber-to-target distance control" (Massachusetts, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,440,269, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Gyrus ACMI Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).

"Laser fiber-to-target distance control" was invented by Sergey A. Bukesov (Acton, Mass.), Kurt G. Shelton (Bedford, Mass.), Hiroyuki Kojo (Brookline, Mass.), Brian M. Talbot (Southborough, Mass.) and Vladimir Polejaev (Middletown, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods for determining a distance between a distal end of an endoscope and a target during an endoscopic procedure are disclosed. A surgical laser feedback control system comprises a feedback analyzer and a controller. The feedback analyzer can receive at least two refle...