US Patent Issued to Pacira CryoTech on Jan. 13 for "Cryogenic blunt dissection methods and devices" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,161, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Pacira CryoTech Inc. (Tampa, Fla.).

"Cryogenic blunt dissection methods and devices" was invented by John Allison (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A point of incision is created within tissue, the tissue having a temporoparietal fascia-deep temporoparietal fascia layer (TPF-sDTF) beneath skin and a temporal branch of a target nerve extending along a portion of the TPF-sDTF, the point of incision being laterally displaced from the target nerve. A cryogenic probe having a distal tip extending from an elongated body is inserted into the point of incision. The TPF-sDTF is bluntly d...