Ben-Yakar, A., C. Hoy, N. Everett, J.B. Kobler, R.R. Anderson, W.A. Warinelli, and S.M. Zeitels, "Systems, devices and methods for imaging and surgery."  US Patent No. 9333036, Issued May 10 (2016).

Ben-Yakar, A., C. Hoy, and O. Solgaard, “Systems, devices and methods for multiphoton imaging and ultrashort pulse laser surgery”, US Patent No. 8894637, Issued November 25 (2014).

Ben-Yakar, A., D. Eversole, and S. X. Guo, "Plasmonic laser nanoablation", US Patent 7834331, issued on 11/16/2010.

• This patent covers the nanoscale ablation of materials and tissue using plasmonically-enhanced ultrafast laser pulses in the near-field of nanoparticles. The patent is based on the work done in the Ben-Yakar Group for the application of this technique to nanofabrication and targeted cellular manipulation. 

See related papers:

PLN of silicon with gold nanoparticles: Eversole et al. and Harrison et al.

PLN of glass using carbon nanotubes: Guo et al.

Review of PLN for biomedical applications: Ben-Yakar et al.