US Patent Issued to ELUX MEDICAL on March 24 for "Gold particles and uses thereof" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,471, issued on March 24, was assigned to ELUX MEDICAL INC. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Gold particles and uses thereof" was invented by Robert Kelly Moore (Coronado, Calif.) and Jordan Sebastian Warburg (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure in various aspects and embodiments provides, inter alia, systems and methods for minimally-invasive lipolysis in a target area by injecting the area with a solution of photo-absorbing nanoparticles and irradiating the injected area with a beam of near infrared (NIR) light. The NIR emission wavelength may in certain embodiments be adapted to excite the nanoparticles to m...