US Patent Issued to The General Hospital on Aug. 19 for "Systems and methods for a hair transplant system with extraction and implantation needles" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,390,245, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to The General Hospital Corp. (Boston).

"Systems and methods for a hair transplant system with extraction and implantation needles" was invented by Walfre Franco (Westborough, Mass.), Esmeralda Ibarra-Silva (Boston), William A. Farinelli (Boston), Joshua Tam (Boston), Richard Rox Anderson (Boston), Lynn Drake (Boston) and Sandeep Korupolu (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided for performing a hair transplant using a hair transplant device. The hair transplant device comprises an extraction unit including a coring needle configured to extract at least one hair foll...