ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,288, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Venusa Group LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Motion based methods for cosmetic ultrasound treatments" was invented by Sibel Ferrer (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some embodiments provide a method including applying high-intensity focused ultrasound energy to a skin treatment area with simultaneous movement of the transducer body across the skin treatment area to form a pattern of treatment lines in tissue at a first depth below the surface of the skin. For example, the pattern of treatment lines may be formed by the movement of the transducer body during one or more treatment cycles. A preferred...