US Patent Issued to Stryker on Oct. 27 for "Methods and apparatus for controlling optical properties of light" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,293, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Methods and apparatus for controlling optical properties of light" was invented by Alex Vayser (Mission Viejo, Calif.), Fernando Erismann (New York), Douglas Rimer (Los Altos Hills, Calif.) and Gaston Tudury (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surgical instrument for illuminating a surgical field has an optical waveguide for transmitting light by total internal reflection. One or more control elements are disposed on the optical waveguide. The control elements extract light from the optical waveguide and control first and second optical properties of...