US Patent Issued to ViaLase on April 21 for "Mechanisms and methods with variable counterbalance to control movement and force of a head of a medical system at an anatomical site" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,605,280, issued on April 21, was assigned to ViaLase Inc. (Aliso Viejo, Calif.).

"Mechanisms and methods with variable counterbalance to control movement and force of a head of a medical system at an anatomical site" was invented by Guy Holland (San Juan Capistrano, Calif.), Virginia Lin (Newport Beach, Calif.), Wesley W. Lummis (Rancho Santa Margarita, Calif.), Eric R. Mikula (Aliso Viejo, 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 multista...