US Patent Issued to CarbonWave on May 20 for "Systems and methods for laser treatment of cellulite" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,303,452, issued on May 20, was assigned to CarbonWave Inc. (Bethel, Conn.).

"Systems and methods for laser treatment of cellulite" was invented by John B. Lee Jr. (Ridgefield, Conn.) and William James Lee (Ridgefield, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments are directed to a cellulite treatment system that contains a laser generating device. A hydrogel patch may include a region, at a first side of the hydrogel patch, to be in contact with a person's skin. The region may contain an adsorbing medium (e.g., carbon black or any other substance that would have a similar effect) that, when receiving a laser beam from the laser g...