US Patent Issued to Lumenis on Oct. 27 for "Apparatus and method for reducing laser beam attenuation in a liquid medium" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,266, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Lumenis Ltd. (Yokneam Ilit, Israel).

"Apparatus and method for reducing laser beam attenuation in a liquid medium" was invented by Tal Waisman (Haifa, Israel), Arkady Khachaturov (Kiryat Yam, Israel) and Assaf Preiss (Bet Yizhaq, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating a mobile target tissue with a laser beam includes: providing a laser device for generating a laser beam and providing an optical fiber having a delivery end for guiding the laser beam to the target tissue; a controller causes the laser device to generate one or more laser pulses substantially along the same lon...