ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,697,246, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to AUROX GMBH (Graz, Austria).
"Temperature control device for face patches" was invented by Christoph Schoeggler (Graz, Austria), Georg Wanka (Graz, Austria) and Heinrich Zaunschirm (Graz, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A temperature control device for face pads. The temperature control device comprises a Peltier element, at least one receptacle for supporting an eye pad, wherein each of the at least one receptacle is thermally coupled to a warm side or a cold side of the Peltier element, and a fixing device which is thermally decoupled from the Peltier element and which fastens the at leas...