ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,575, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Sofwave Medical Ltd. (Yokneam Illit, Israel).
"Skin treatment" was invented by Ariel Sverdlik (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Shimon Eckhouse (Haifa, Israel), Rana Bassal (Haifa, Israel) and Ilya Glants (Petach-Tikva, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments of the invention relate to an applicator for applying ultrasound energy to a tissue volume, comprising: an array comprising a plurality of ultrasound transducers, the transducers arranged side by side, the transducers configured to emit unfocused ultrasound energy suitable to thermally damage at least a portion of the tissue volume, each ...