US Patent Issued to Cutera on June 2 for "Dermatological laser systems and methods with pressure sensing handpiece" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,985, issued on June 2, was assigned to Cutera Inc. (Brisbane, Calif.).

"Dermatological laser systems and methods with pressure sensing handpiece" was invented by Michael A. Karavitis (San Pedro, Calif.), Wytze E. van der Veer (San Bruno, Calif.), Amogh Kothare (Fremont, Calif.), Soenke A. Moeller (Berkeley, Calif.) and Shawn M. Gilliam (Daly City, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Dermatological systems and methods for providing a therapeutic laser treatment using a handpiece providing contact cooling of the skin and contact sensing to ensure proper contact between therapeutic laser and the contact cooling element and skin of the ...