ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,181, issued on June 23, was assigned to Gyrus ACMI Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).

"System, method and computer-readable storage device for controlling laser light source of lithotripsy device" was invented by Brian M. Talbot (Southborough, Mass.), Kurt G. Shelton (Bedford, Mass.), Anne G. McLoughlin (Exeter, N.H.) and Masayasu Chida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "System and methods for controlling a laser light source of a lithotripsy device to fragment or break a target object are disclosed. An exemplary system includes a controller that can perform one or more iterations of a first process and one or more iterations of a second ...