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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 15, 2019
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2015
Applicant:
Medical Instrument Development Laboratories, Inc., San Leandro, CA (US);
Inventor:
Erik William Peterson, Walnut Creek, CA (US);
Assignee:
Medical Instrument Development Laboratories, Inc., San Leandro, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 3/00 (2006.01); A61F 9/007 (2006.01); A61B 90/30 (2016.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 3/0008 (2013.01); A61F 9/007 (2013.01); A61B 2090/306 (2016.02);
Abstract
A surgical instrument includes an optical fiber having a proximal end and a distal end, the optical fiber configured to emit light at the distal end. The surgical instrument also includes at least one scattering material coupled to the proximal end, the distal end, or a combination of both the proximal end and the distal end.