ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,571, issued on March 18, was assigned to HAIR GROUP LLC (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

"Light based therapy devices and methods" was invented by Sara Wasserbauer (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Erik Carlson (Walnut Creek, Calif.), Craig Janik (Walnut Creek, Calif.) and Steven Escobar (Walnut Creek, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a light therapy apparatus, system, and method for providing light delivered to a body organ, e.g., skin such as a scalp, via one or more light guides in therapeutic dosages from one or more light sources operating in a variety of wavelengths. The light source may comprise one or more...