ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,500, issued on June 10, was assigned to John H. Shadduck (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for treating lips and skin" was invented by John H. Shadduck (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for treating a targeted tissue including a skin or a lip and more particularly methods and devices that enhances absorption of treatment media into tissue for cosmetic and therapeutic purposes, where applicators for treating the targeted tissue are configured to apply negative pressure with an aspiration portion having a plurality of apertures distributed over the aspiration portion, and the distal tip of ...