US Patent Issued to The General Hospital, Blossom Innovations on June 24 for "Method and apparatus for selective treatment of biological tissue" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,756, issued on June 24, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston) and Blossom Innovations LLC (Waltham, Mass.).

"Method and apparatus for selective treatment of biological tissue" was invented by Richard Rox Anderson (Boston), Dieter Manstein (Coral Gables, Fla.), Henry Hin Lee Chan (Hong Kong) and Vincent Zuo (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary treatment system can be provided which can include a laser system configured to emit at least one laser beam, and an optical system configured to focus the laser beam(s) to a focal region at a selected distance from a surface of a tissue. The focal region can be conf...