US Patent Issued to Lumenis on April 22 for "Medical optical fiber with protective tip and method of manufacture therefor" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,813, issued on April 22, was assigned to Lumenis Ltd. (Israel).

"Medical optical fiber with protective tip and method of manufacture therefor" was invented by Arkady Khachaturov (Haifa, Israel) and Tal Waisman (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed towards medical optical fibers with protective tips for use with endoscopes for laser based treatment of internal bodily organs and method of manufacture therefor. The medical optical fibers have a short stripped medical optical fiber section and a protective tip provided thereon to encapsulate both the stripped medical optical fiber section and the ...