US Patent Issued to Alcon on Dec. 30 for "Single-fiber illuminated laser probe with adjustable color" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,161, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Alcon Inc. (Fribourg, Switzerland).

"Single-fiber illuminated laser probe with adjustable color" was invented by Chenguang Diao (Irvine, Calif.), Alireza Mirsepassi (Irvine, Calif.) and Ronald T. Smith (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to improved surgical laser systems with single-core single-optical fiber-illuminated laser probes, which are configured to propagate both treatment laser beams and illumination light beams. More particularly, embodiments of the present disclosure provide surgical laser systems with color adjustability of i...