ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,565,918, issued on March 3, was assigned to VaiLase Inc. (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).
"Mechanisms and methods with one-way braking to control movement of a head of a medical system relative to an anatomical site" was invented by Guy Holland (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), Ryan Johnson (Aliso Viejo, Calif.), Virginia Lin (Newport Beach, Calif.), Wesley W. Lummis (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Scott D. Paterson (Vista, Calif.), Ferenc Raksi (Mission Viejo, Calif.) and Nathan Sangalang (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical system includes a head having an end arranged to face a reference plane and a multistage slide mech...