US Patent Issued to L & O Medical on Jan. 13 for "Use of platelet-based products for treatment of capsular contracture proximate breast implant" (Hawaii Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,417, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to L & O Medical LLC (Honolulu).

"Use of platelet-based products for treatment of capsular contracture proximate breast implant" was invented by Stephen Lawrence Schlesinger (Honolulu) and Owen Tsan Mo Chan (Honolulu).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and products for treating capsular contractures of breast implants including (1) obtaining a platelet-rich plasma (PRP) or platelet-rich fibrin (PRF) fraction from a patient who exhibits capsular contracture of a breast implant; and (2) applying the PRP or PRF fraction to said capsular contracture, thereby relaxing the capsular contracture."

The...