US Patent Issued to OLYMPUS on Nov. 11 for "Waveform control device for laser lithotripsy apparatus, laser lithotripsy method, and crushing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,466,000, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to OLYMPUS Corp. (Tokyo).

"Waveform control device for laser lithotripsy apparatus, laser lithotripsy method, and crushing method" was invented by Takeshi Watanabe (Tokyo) and Takumi Hayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a waveform control device for a laser lithotripsy apparatus including: a processor including hardware, the processor being configured to: pulse a laser beam; change an output of the pulsed laser beam; continuously emit the laser beam until a bubble generated from a laser emission end by an irradiation of the laser beam reaches a crushing target; and after the b...