ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,409,061, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to HILOTHERM HOLDING AG (Oberwil b. Zug, Switzerland).

"Apparatus for thermal therapy treatment of a selected region of the body of a human or of an animal and method of operating said apparatus" was invented by Christian Stegmann (Burgberg im Allgau, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device for use in the thermal therapy treatment of a selected region of the body of a human or of an animal, in particular for use in the treatment of tissue damage after surgical interventions, of injuries, of inflammations and of chronic diseases of the rheumatic type, and in partic...