US Patent Issued to Lumenis on Feb. 17 for "Temperature measurement for optical fiber based laser treatments" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,278, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Lumenis Ltd. (Yokneam Ilit, Israel).

"Temperature measurement for optical fiber based laser treatments" was invented by Asaf Granot (Lotem, Israel) and Vitaly Rondel (Hadera, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a method and system for estimating the temperature of a working environment. Treatments that use laser and optical fiber technology may cause an undesirable increase in the temperature of a working environment. To that end, a laser source to generate light beams sensitive to a change in temperature can be generated and the temperature determined based on...