ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,472, issued on March 24, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).
"Systems for determining size of kidney stone" was invented by Kian Lim (Shrewsbury, Mass.) and Longquan Chen (Lexington, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is disclosed that includes an optical fiber including a first optical module and a gate. The gate can be capable of moving between closed and opened states to form a slit. At least one storage medium can be included having encoded thereon executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the system to carry out a method including directing light ...