US Patent Issued to AFS on Jan. 28 for "Apparatus for determining defective hair follicles and apparatus for automatically separating hair follicles including the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,211,207, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to AFS INC. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Apparatus for determining defective hair follicles and apparatus for automatically separating hair follicles including the same" was invented by Tae Hee Kim (Seoul, South Korea) and Kyoung Ku Lee (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for determining defective hair follicles includes an image acquiring unit for acquiring an image of a follicle and a hair for each follicle separated from a scalp of an alopecic patient in an incisional hair transplant or each follicle directly extracted from an alopecic patient in a non-incisional hair tran...