US Patent Issued to LUMENIS BE on Nov. 25 for "Apparatus and method for free-hand titratable illumination of photodisruptors" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,452, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to LUMENIS BE LTD. (Israel).

"Apparatus and method for free-hand titratable illumination of photodisruptors" was invented by Yair Mandelstam-Manor (Yokneam, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A movable illumination tower for use with a photodisruptor that provides titratable illumination of ocular tissue. The illumination tower can be rotated between an on-axis position relative to the photodisruptor axis and an off-axis position relative to the photodisruptor axis, such that the illumination tower is positioned at an angle relative to the photodisruptor axis under the control of a hands-free m...