US Patent Issued to PROCEPT BioRobotics on March 17 for "Tissue treatment probe with bent optical fiber" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,852, issued on March 17, was assigned to PROCEPT BioRobotics Corp. (Redwood City, Calif.).

"Tissue treatment probe with bent optical fiber" was invented by Nikolai Aljuri (Hillsborough, Calif.) and Michael W. Sasnett (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus to treat a patient, the apparatus comprises a carrier having a proximal end and a distal end, an optical fiber to couple to a light source, a fluid delivery element comprising a nozzle having an orifice on the distal end, and an alignment structure to align the optical fiber with the orifice. A distance extends between the alignment structure and the orifice...