US Patent Issued to Gyrus ACMI on March 3 for "Endoscope laser-triggered suction automatic on/off" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,564,439, issued on March 3, was assigned to Gyrus ACMI Inc. (Westborough, Mass.).

"Endoscope laser-triggered suction automatic on/off" was invented by Jordan C. Avalos (Littleton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A suction or other component of an endoscope system may be cycled on and off or otherwise controlled without requiring direct user input, such as automatically or semi-automatically using a current or historical state of a laser generator, a blurriness or other information from an image of the working area, a count of fragments of a calculi stone, an intraoperative pressure, an intraoperative temperature, or one or more othe...