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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 04, 2020
Filed:
Jun. 17, 2016
Corning Incorporated, Corning, NY (US);
Michael Lucien Genier, Horseheads, NY (US);
William Spencer Klubben, III, Corning, NY (US);
CORNING INCORPORATED, Corning, NY (US);
Abstract
A therapeutic illumination assembly includes a catheter and a point source treatment fiber. The catheter comprises a catheter wall encircling a luminal fluid pathway. The point source treatment fiber is positioned within the luminal fluid pathway of the catheter. Further, the point source treatment fiber comprises a plurality of light emitting point sources intermittently positioned along a treatment length of the point source treatment fiber such that the plurality of light emitting point sources irradiate the catheter when the plurality of light emitting point sources emit light.