US Patent Issued to LiteCure on May 26 for "Non-ablative photonic devices and related methods" (California, Delaware Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,517, issued on May 26, was assigned to LiteCure LLC (New Castle, Del.).

"Non-ablative photonic devices and related methods" was invented by Luis De Taboada (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Brian Pryor (Newark, Del.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of delivering light energy to a pathological tissue includes emitting light energy from a first optical element within a cannula, producing a substantially uniform irradiance profile from the light energy within the cannula, transmitting the light energy emitted from the first optical element through a second optical element in thermal contact with a distal end of the cannula to the pathologica...