ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,179, issued on March 25, was assigned to KAMEDI GMBH (Karlsruhe, Germany).

"Couplable portable device for the thermal medical treatment of skin" was invented by Christof Reuter (Friesheim, Germany), Stefan Hotz (Muehlhausen, Germany), Armin Meyer (Berlin) and Lukas Heinrich Liedtke (Korbach, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable device for the thermal medical treatment of skin allows a treatment attachment to be coupled to a mobile data-processing unit, preferably a smartphone or a tablet, via an interface, wherein a housing of the treatment attachment which extends over the treatment attachment is provided with a heatin...