US Patent Issued to IPG PHOTONICS on Jan. 13 for "Steering handle with multi-channel manifold" (Russian, American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,001, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to IPG PHOTONICS Corp. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Steering handle with multi-channel manifold" was invented by Gregory Altshuler (Lincoln, Mass.), Ilya Yaroslavsky (N. Andover, Mass.), Dmitri Boutoussov (Southborough, Mass.), Viktoriya Andreeva (Moscow Region, Russia), Olivier Traxer (Paris), Michael Barenboym (Boston), Isaac Ostrovsky (Wellesley, Mass.) and Anastasiya Kovalenko (Moscow Region, Russia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Steering handles with manifolds that enable an operator to configure an endoscopic system in situ for a variety of tasks, including irrigation, aspiration, or both. In addi...