ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,595, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Cytrellis Biosystems Inc. (Woburn, Mass.).
"Methods and devices for skin tightening" was invented by Douglas Levinson (Sherborn, Mass.), David Sean Stone (Acton, Mass.) and Alec Ginggen (Medford, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to methods and devices for skin tightening after incising or excising tissue portions from a subject. Exemplary methods and devices include tunable dressings having an adhesive layer and a regulatable layer or an un-stretched layer that responds to one or more external stimuli to contract or expand the dressing, where the contraction or...