ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,450, issued on March 25, was assigned to Cutera Inc. (Brisbane, Calif.).

"Dermatological systems and methods with handpiece for coaxial pulse delivery and temperature sensing" was invented by Michael A. Karavitis (San Pedro, Calif.), Wytze E. van der Veer (Bennekom, Netherlands), Amogh Kothare (Fremont, Calif.), Soenke A. Moeller (Berkeley, Calif.) and Shawn M. Gilliam (Daly City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dermatological systems and methods for providing a therapeutic laser treatment using a handpiece delivering one or more therapeutic laser pulses to a target skin area along a first optical path, and sensing the tempera...