ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,730, issued on March 3, was assigned to ACCLARO Corp. (Smithfield, R.I.).

"Laser surgical apparatus for performing treatment by irradiating a part to be treated by a variable pulsed laser beam" was invented by Shlomo Assa (Smithfield, R.I.) and Yingyuan Fang (Smithfield, R.I.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser surgical apparatus for performing treatment by irradiating a part to be treated by a variable pulsed laser beam is disclosed. This apparatus includes a laser source which emits variable waveform output of treatment laser beam pulses; a flexible beam delivery for delivering the treatment laser beam emitted from the laser sou...