US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on March 3 for "Tailored laser pulses for surgical applications" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,443, issued on March 3, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Tailored laser pulses for surgical applications" was invented by Werner Falkenstein (Feldafing, Germany), Michael Schubert (Tutzing, Germany), Stephan Dittmar (Gauting, Germany), Anna Butsch (Regensburg, Germany) and Thomas Kremser (Koenigsdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser system may include a controller configured to direct a plurality of temporally spaced-apart electrical pulses to a device that optically pumps a lasing medium, and a lasing medium configured to output a quasi-continuous laser pulse in response to the opti...