US Patent Issued to IPG PHOTONICS on Sept. 29 for "Smart irrigation and aspiration system and method" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,323, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to IPG PHOTONICS Corp. (Marlborough, Mass.).

"Smart irrigation and aspiration system and method" was invented by Ilya Yaroslavsky (Oxford, Mass.), Sergei Pilipetskii (Oxford, Mass.), Dmitri Boutoussov (Oxford, Mass.), Gregory Altshuler (Oxford, Mass.), Olivier Traxer (Oxford, Mass.), Isaac Ostrovsky (Oxford, Mass.), Anastasiya Kovalenko (Oxford, Mass.) and Felix Stukalin (Oxford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An irrigation and aspiration system that includes a catheter shaft having a distal end that is in fluid communication with an interior of a kidney, an irrigation channel and an aspir...