US Patent Issued on May 26 for "Systems and methods for treating skin" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,477, issued on May 26.

"Systems and methods for treating skin" was invented by John H. Shadduck (Menlo Park, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A skin treatment system that uses ultrasound devices, and more particularly, handheld devices with an ultrasound transducer used in combination with a continuous flow of serum carrying acoustically responsive media wherein acoustic energy transmitted from the transducer causes dimensional changes in the acoustically responsive media to create acoustic pressure peaks capable of loosening paracellular junctions in the skin to enhance penetration of serum into the skin."

The patent was filed ...