US Patent Issued on June 2 for "Methods and apparatuses for attaching hair using surgical thread" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,643, issued on June 2.

"Methods and apparatuses for attaching hair using surgical thread" was invented by Jeffrey Riopelle (San Ramon, Calif.) and Mark Thomas (Cupertino, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A human hair implant procedure involves inserting a length of barbed surgical thread through a cannula so that a first portion including a distal end of the barbed surgical thread is near a distal end of the cannula and a second portion is outside the proximal end of the cannula, then inserting the distal end of the cannula through an entry point of the skin of the human and advancing the cannula under the skin until the proximal...