US Patent Issued to Solta Medical Ireland on March 18 for "Ceramic applicator for transcutaneous delivery of energy" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,152, issued on March 18, was assigned to Solta Medical Ireland Ltd. (Dublin).

"Ceramic applicator for transcutaneous delivery of energy" was invented by Frederick Jay Bennett (Bellevue, Wash.) and Craig Robert Bockenstedt (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Structures for a bidirectional switch and methods of forming such structures. A substrate contact is formed in a trench defined in a substrate. A substrate includes a trench and a substrate contact in the trench. A bidirectional switch, which is on the substrate, includes a first source/drain electrode, a second source/drain electrode, an extension region between the f...