US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Oct. 28 for "Device and method to treat vaginal atrophy" (Oregon, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,453,870, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Device and method to treat vaginal atrophy" was invented by Holly Elizabeth Rockweiler (Portland, Ore.), Ryan Taylor Krone (Portland, Ore.), Jonathan Daniel Steinberger (Portland, Ore.) and Kathryn Olson (Redwood City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of treating vaginal tissue atrophy in a female subject, the method including the steps of engaging an energy delivery element with tissue in or around the subject's vagina; applying energy to the tissue from the energy delivery element; and increasing...