ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,916, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Mamba Instruments S.A. (Asuncion, Paraguay).

"Multi-phasic handpiece for excision of hair grafts" was invented by Ronald David Benitez Ojeda (Asuncion, Paraguay), Luis Roberto Trivellini (Malaga, Spain) and Parsa Mohebi (Woodland Hills, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An extraction device, including a motor, a driveshaft operatively coupled to the motor and driven to rotate thereby, a punch tool directly coupled to a distal end of the driveshaft to rotate therewith, and arranged to be in physical contact with a skin layer during operation of the extraction device, a force sensor operative...