US Patent Issued to TIGER AESTHETICS MEDICAL on Dec. 30 for "Systems and methods for tissue expansion" (Montana, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,508,096, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to TIGER AESTHETICS MEDICAL LLC (Conshohocken, Pa.).

"Systems and methods for tissue expansion" was invented by Steven Charles Geiger (Hamilton, Mont.), Dan Carlisle (Santa Barbara, Calif.) and Tom McClellan (Santa Barbara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tissue expander comprising: a port assembly including a drain port and a fill port, a magnet housing assembly fitted to the port assembly, the magnet housing assembly including a single magnet having a magnetic field that is detectable on an exterior surface of a biological tissue of a patient; a shell defining the interior cavity of the ...