ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,712, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Lumenis Ltd. (Yokneam Ilit, Israel).
"Medical optical fiber with protective tip encapsulation" was invented by Arkady Khachaturov (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a medical optical fiber with protective tips for use with medical laser-based treatment of internal bodily organs. The medical optical fibers have apertures in a jacket of the medical optical fiber to increase an adhesion between the protective tip and the jacket."
The patent was filed on April 22, 2022, under Application No. 17/727,014.
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