US Patent Issued to EnGraft Technologies on Oct. 7 for "Hair transplantation surgery with graft-on-demand processing of follicular units" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,739, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to EnGraft Technologies Inc. (Marina del Rey, Calif.).

"Hair transplantation surgery with graft-on-demand processing of follicular units" was invented by William R Rassman (Los Angeles) and Pascal Boudjema (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The harvesting of hair for a hair transplant procedure with immediate placement of the hair grafts to the balding area, employs a hollow drill connected to a suction with an imaging system (containing one or more cameras) which permits alignment of the center of the cutting edge of the needle on or slightly offset from the axis of the hair within the follicula...