ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,410, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to RICHARD WOLF GMBH (Knittlingen, Germany).
"Light applicator system with protective sleeve" was invented by Bernd Claus Weber (Karlsruhe, Germany) and Stephan Sieber (Knittlingen-Freudenstein, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light applicator system (31), for examination and/or treatment of an organic body (5), includes a light applicator (21) having a distal-side insertion portion (1) with a light emitting element (7) at the distal end for piercing tissue (3) and a needle tip (9) at least partially distally of the light-emitting element and tapering distalwards. A positioning element ...