ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,361, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to EMBR Labs IP LLC (Boston).
"Methods and apparatuses for manipulating temperature" was invented by Matthew J. Smith (Somerville, Mass.), Samuel Shames (Cambridge, Mass.), Michael Gibson (Boston) and David Cohen-Tanugi (Somerville, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatuses for manipulating the temperature of a surface are provided. Devices of the present disclosure may include a thermal adjustment apparatus, such as a controller in electrical communication with one or more thermoelectric materials, placed adjacent to the surface of skin. The device may generate a series of ther...