ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,377,254, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Active Needle Technology LTD (Abingdon, Great Britain).
"Tattoo device" was invented by Ian Hugh Quirk (Oxford, Great Britain), Muhammad Rohaan Sadiq (Aylesbury, Great Britain) and Andrea Giacomo Mica (Oxford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tattoo device is provided comprising a housing having a first oscillator which is coupled, in use, to a needle assembly having a sharps end. The first oscillator is arranged and adapted to induce vibrations at a frequency from 1-1000 Hz substantially longitudinally along an axis of the needle assembly in order to cause, in use, the sharps end t...