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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 29, 2012
Filed:
Jun. 09, 2008
Applicants:
Richard Shaun Welches, Manchester, NH (US);
James Henry Boll, Newton, MA (US);
Inventors:
Richard Shaun Welches, Manchester, NH (US);
James Henry Boll, Newton, MA (US);
Assignee:
Cynosure, Inc., Westford, MA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 6/00 (2006.01); A61B 18/18 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
An apparatus is disclosed for monitoring a thermal surgical procedure including a thermal camera for monitoring temperature at a plurality of locations within at least a portion of a surgical field undergoing thermal surgical treatment and generating a series of thermal images based on said monitoring, a processor for processing the thermal images, and a display for displaying, in real time, a series of display images indicative of temperature at the plurality of positions.