ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,714,490, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Cynosure LLC (Westford, Mass.).

"Methods and apparatus for controlled RF treatments and RF generator system" was invented by James Boll (Auburndale, Mass.), Richard Shaun Welches (Townsend, Mass.), Daniel Masse (Windham, N.H.), Samuel Bruce (Malden, Mass.), Jeffrey Simon (Medford, Mass.), Ali Shajii (Weston, Mass.), David Sonnenshein (Dorchester, Mass.), Robert D. McCarthy (Maynard, Mass.) and Rafael Armando Sierra (Gulfport, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrosurgical systems and components thereof configured to deliver RF energy to a target site of a human or other animal patient with...