US Patent Issued to Boston Scientific Scimed on March 31 for "Laser ablation with electromagnetic energy feedback" (American, South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,949, issued on March 31, was assigned to Boston Scientific Scimed Inc. (Maple Grove, Minn.).

"Laser ablation with electromagnetic energy feedback" was invented by Rongwei Jason Xuan (Fremont, Calif.), Brian P. Watschke (Minneapolis), Douglas L. Evans (Andover, Minn.), Guangjian Wang (Falcon Heights, Minn.), Wen-Jui Ray Chia (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Nathan Brown (Bloomington, Minn.), Thomas C. Hasenberg (Campbell, Calif.), Jian James Zhang (Santa Clara, Calif.) and Hyun Wook Kang (Nam-gu, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of a surgical laser system comprise a laser source (102), a laser fiber (104), a photodetector (...