ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,383,737, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NSE Products Inc. (Provo, Utah).

"Skin treatment device with thermally modulated head" was invented by Richard R. Best (Mapleton, Utah) and Dale G. Kern (Hyde Park, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A skin treatment device is provided with a thermally modulated treatment head adapted for contact with a user or other subject's skin. The device includes one or more thermal elements adapted to modulate the temperature of the head, a power source adapted to provide current to the thermal elements, and a controller adapted to modulate the head temperature by controlling the current delivered to th...