US Patent Issued to CYNOSURE on Sept. 30 for "Picosecond laser apparatus and methods for treating target tissues with same" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,683, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to CYNOSURE LLC (Westford, Mass.).

"Picosecond laser apparatus and methods for treating target tissues with same" was invented by Rafael Armando Sierra (Palmer, Mass.) and Mirko Georgiev Mirkov (Chelmsford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Apparatuses and methods are disclosed for applying laser energy having desired pulse characteristics, including a sufficiently short duration and/or a sufficiently high energy for the photomechanical treatment of skin pigmentations and pigmented lesions, both naturally-occurring (e.g., birthmarks), as well as artificial (e.g., tattoos). The laser energy ma...