ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,376,736, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Invuity Inc. (San Francisco).
"Thermally controlled illumination devices" was invented by Vladimir Zagatsky (San Francisco), Fernando Erismann (New York) and Alex Vayser (Mission Viejo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An illumination element has a light input section, a light transmitting section, and a light output section. The light input section is optically coupled to a proximal section of the light transmitting section and inputs light into the illumination element. The light transmitting section transmits the light by total internal reflection or by other transmission means. The light...