US Patent Issued to Novoxel on March 25 for "Methods and devices for thermal tissue vaporization and compression" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,256,980, issued on March 25, was assigned to Novoxel Ltd. (Netanya, Israel).

"Methods and devices for thermal tissue vaporization and compression" was invented by Michael Slatkine (Herzlia, Israel), Ronen Shavit (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Raphael Shavit (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of producing an array of sharp tips including a biocompatible coating, wherein the biocompatible coating is thicker at a sharp end of the sharp tips than at a broader section of the sharp tips, the method including providing an array of sharp tips, and coating the sharp end of the sharp tips differentially from coating the broader sec...