Patents Assigned to LUMENIS BE LTD.
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Patent number: 8477816Abstract: Disclosed is a high current radiation system. The system includes a high current radiation source to generate radiation and an analog circuit to generate, based, at least in part, on an input signal representative of the present current level delivered to the high current radiation source and a user-controlled input representative of a desired current level, an output signal to control a current level to be delivered to the high current radiation source. The system further includes a current driver to control the current delivered to the high current radiation source based, at least in part, on the output signal of the analog circuit.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2012Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Lumenis, Ltd.Inventor: Ofer Weizmann
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Publication number: 20130144281Abstract: A tissue treatment apparatus is provided for surgical and medical procedures and operations including an instrument and accessory base adapted for receiving one or more instruments and/or accessories configured for different procedures and operations and for a variety of modes of use of the treatment apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 24, 2011Publication date: June 6, 2013Applicant: LUMENIS LTDInventors: Reuven Lewinsky, Roee Khen, Nissim Hay
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Publication number: 20130123769Abstract: A system and method of estimating a distance between the distal end of an optical fiber and treated tissue, to improve treatment efficiency, is provided herein. The estimation is achieved by modulating the numerical aperture of a light beam transmitted through the fiber to receive reflections from the tissue and distinguish them from other reflections in the fiber, and further by calculating the distance by comparing reflection intensities of beams having different numerical aperture values that illuminate the tissue over a very short period, so that tissue and environment conditions do not change much.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2011Publication date: May 16, 2013Applicant: LUMENIS LTD.Inventors: Arkady Khatchaturov, Uri Voitsechov, Igal Koifman
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Publication number: 20130053832Abstract: Disclosed are systems, devices, materials and method, including a system that includes an energy delivery apparatus to apply energy generated by an energy source to a target area, and a flexible deformable bio-degradable protective material configured to be deformed to define irregular surfaces. The deformable bio-degradable material is also configured to be placed in a location between the target area and another area, to interact with energy not absorbed by the target area to protect the other area, at least partly, from the energy not absorbed by the target area, and further configured to degrade over a period of time when the deformable bio-degradable material is placed substantially permanently proximate the location between the target area and the other area.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2010Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: LUMENIS LTD.Inventors: Reuven Lewinsky, Roee Khen
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Publication number: 20120316549Abstract: Disclosed are apparatus, method, devices and instruments, including an apparatus that includes a flexible waveguide coupled to a supporting structure, and further coupled to a treatment tip. The apparatus also includes a beam controller to control application of a radiation beam emitted from the flexible waveguide to distribute the beam over an area different than an area covered by direct application of the beam to a single location on a target tissue. Further disclosed is an apparatus that includes a waveguide, coupleable to a laser source, and a thermal protection instrument. The thermal protection instrument includes a tissue contacting member to contact a part of an area of a tissue irradiated by laser radiation, and a beam blocking element to absorb at least some of radiation not absorbed by the area of the tissue, the beam blocking element being thermally isolated from the area of the tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2012Publication date: December 13, 2012Applicant: LUMENIS LTD.Inventors: Reuven M. Lewinsky, Roee Khen
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Publication number: 20120201261Abstract: Disclosed is a high current radiation system. The system includes a high current radiation source to generate radiation and an analog circuit to generate, based, at least in part, on an input signal representative of the present current level delivered to the high current radiation source and a user-controlled input representative of a desired current level, an output signal to control a current level to be delivered to the high current radiation source. The system further includes a current driver to control the current delivered to the high current radiation source based, at least in part, on the output signal of the analog circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2012Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: LUMENIS LTD.Inventor: OFER WEIZMANN
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Patent number: 8184669Abstract: Disclosed is a high current radiation system. The system includes a high current radiation source to generate radiation and an analog circuit to generate, based, at least in part, on an input signal representative of the present current level delivered to the high current radiation source and a user-controlled input representative of a desired current level, an output signal to control a current level to be delivered to the high current radiation source. The system further includes a current driver to control the current delivered to the high current radiation source based, at least in part, on the output signal of the analog circuit.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2011Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: Lumenis, Ltd.Inventor: Ofer Weizmann
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Patent number: 8165838Abstract: Disclosed is a method to determine behavior characteristics of one or more modules of a laser system. The method includes applying inputs to the one or more modules of the laser system, measuring outputs resulting from the application of the inputs, and determining an equation-based mathematical relationship relating the inputs to the resultant outputs of the one or more modules of the laser system.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2008Date of Patent: April 24, 2012Assignee: Lumenis Ltd.Inventors: Robert William Kane, John Kennedy
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Publication number: 20120083777Abstract: The present invention generally relates to the field of laser treatment of tissue, and particularly, to a system and method for creating microablated channels in skin. The present invention is more particularly directed to treating subsurface tissue through the created channels.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2011Publication date: April 5, 2012Applicant: LUMENIS LTD.Inventors: VLADIMIR LEMBERG, VITALI EPSHTEIN, YONI IGER, JOHN LEE PANNELL
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Publication number: 20120065551Abstract: An apparatus for treating tissue includes a first energy application device to direct energy at tissue of a patient to cause at least one channel to be formed and a controller to control application of energy from the first energy application device to form the at least one channel. The at least one channel may be in the shape of a spiral-like shape or may be in a flower-like shape. Mechanisms are provided to help open channels formed in the human skin structure. A second energy application source may be used to maintain the channel open after formation. The controller may cause the first energy application device to form a plurality of channels of varying depth, width and distribution over the human skin surface. The apparatus to control the application of energy may be operated using a foot-activated pedal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2011Publication date: March 15, 2012Applicant: Lumenis Ltd.Inventors: Idan Aviad, Yoni Iger, Assaf Gelstein, Jason A. Mirabito, Omer Peled
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Patent number: 8100562Abstract: A supporting structure is disclosed for both securing optical elements for providing optimal cooling of the optical elements and the light source.Type: GrantFiled: December 23, 2009Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Lumenis Ltd.Inventors: Michael Robert Gluszczak, Paul O. Ramstad, Stephen Derek Smithson, George Phillips, Roy W. Lindahl
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Publication number: 20110228801Abstract: Disclosed is a high current radiation system. The system includes a high current radiation source to generate radiation and an analog circuit to generate, based, at least in part, on an input signal representative of the present current level delivered to the high current radiation source and a user-controlled input representative of a desired current level, an output signal to control a current level to be delivered to the high current radiation source. The system further includes a current driver to control the current delivered to the high current radiation source based, at least in part, on the output signal of the analog circuit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2011Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: Lumenis Ltd.Inventor: Ofer Weizmann
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Publication number: 20110218464Abstract: A tissue treatment system and a treatment applicator provide multi-modality treatment of skin, tissue and organ conditions and pathologies using different types of treatment energy, alone or in combination, including radiofrequency (RF) energy and ultrasound energy to achieve multiple and different treatment effects that are tissue-specific and tissue depth-specific. The system and the applicator according to the invention selectively and fractionally and, as an option, nonfractionally, treat one or more tissue zones within a three-dimensional volume of skin or other soft tissue with one or more energy types and precisely target measured treatment energy to specific tissue types, tissue layers and/or specific depths or locations within the volume of skin or tissue. The system and the applicator can also target one or more energy types to treat a specific location or depth within a given tissue layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2011Publication date: September 8, 2011Applicant: Lumenis Ltd.Inventor: Yoni Iger
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Patent number: 8004665Abstract: Disclosed is a system to measure the energy level of a radiation pulse. The system includes a sample-and-hold module to measure the radiation pulse and to generate a signal representative of an energy level of the radiation pulse, and a processing module to determine an energy value of the radiation pulse based on the signal generated by the sample-and-hold module.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2008Date of Patent: August 23, 2011Assignee: Lumenis, Ltd.Inventor: Dirk D. Cooley
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Patent number: 7961767Abstract: Disclosed is a high current radiation system. The system includes a high current radiation source to generate radiation and an analog circuit to generate, based, at least in part, on an input signal representative of the present current level delivered to the high current radiation source and a user-controlled input representative of a desired current level, an output signal to control a current level to be delivered to the high current radiation source. The system further includes a current driver to control the current delivered to the high current radiation source based, at least in part, on the output signal of the analog circuit.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2009Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: Lumenis Ltd.Inventor: Ofer Weizmann
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Publication number: 20110125227Abstract: A system and method to control non-coherent pulsed light, the system including a lamp to produce non-coherent light energy in a pulsed mode, a current supply to provide energy to the system, and a switching module to control the spectral distribution and/or light intensity in the non-coherent pulsed light energy during a pulse of non-coherent light. The system may include a controller unit to control pulse parameters for a selected treatment, based on illumination data received from the light sensor. The system may include one or more changeable filters to modulate the pulses supplied to the lamp during a pulse.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2010Publication date: May 26, 2011Applicant: Lumenis Ltd.Inventors: Boris Vaynberg, Haim Epshtein, Shimon Panfil, Yoni Iger
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Publication number: 20110098528Abstract: Disclosed are apparatus, systems, devices, methods and structures, including an apparatus that includes a device including an inner channel, and a fiber structure comprising an energy-transmitting fiber and a cover surrounding the energy-transmitting fiber, the energy transmitting fiber including an end that is substantially flush with the cover such that the fiber structure can be passed through the inner channel of the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2010Publication date: April 28, 2011Applicant: Lumenis Ltd.Inventor: Reuven M. Lewinsky
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Publication number: 20110087202Abstract: Disclosed are apparatus, method, devices and instruments, including an apparatus that includes a flexible waveguide coupled to a supporting structure, and further coupled to a treatment tip. The apparatus also includes a beam controller to control application of a radiation beam emitted from the flexible waveguide to distribute the beam over an area different than an area covered by direct application of the beam to a single location on a target tissue. Further disclosed is an apparatus that includes a waveguide, coupleable to a laser source, and a thermal protection instrument. The thermal protection instrument includes a tissue contacting member to contact a part of an area of a tissue irradiated by laser radiation, and a beam blocking element to absorb at least some of radiation not absorbed by the area of the tissue, the beam blocking element being thermally isolated from the area of the tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2010Publication date: April 14, 2011Applicant: Lumenis Ltd.Inventors: Reuven M. Lewinsky, Roee Khen
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Patent number: 7873083Abstract: A system, apparatus, and method may provide laser beams of two or more wavelengths from diode pumped solid-state laser sources (220, 222, 224). The beam paths of these laser beams with different wavelengths, which are generated by the laser sources (220, 222, 224), may be aligned along a common optical axis 280 by an optical configuration, to treat at least one target area. Frequency-doubled laser beams, output from a plurality of diode pumped solid state laser cavities, may be passed through fold mirrors (M2, M5, M8), and combined on a common optical axis 280, using one or more combiner mirrors (M10, M11, M12), to unify the beam paths. Selected laser beams may be delivered to a target using one or more delivery systems.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2003Date of Patent: January 18, 2011Assignee: Lumenis Ltd.Inventors: David Haydn Mordaunt, Steven Scott Christensen, Allison Albrecht Ferro, David A. Dewey
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Patent number: D643530Type: GrantFiled: August 10, 2006Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: Lumenis, Ltd.Inventors: Paul O. Ramstad, Donna S. Levy, Alexis A. Mataban, Stephen Derek Smithson, Daniel K. Childs, Matthew William Tivnon