US Patent Issued to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS on April 7 for "Optical assembly for use in a skin treatment device" (Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,434, issued on April 7, was assigned to KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Optical assembly for use in a skin treatment device" was invented by Frank Anton Van Abeelen (Eindhoven, Netherlands), Rieko Verhagen (Vught, Netherlands), Boamfa Marius Iosif (Veldhoven, Netherlands) and Kiran Kumar Thumma (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an optical assembly (1) for use in a skin treatment device (2), and the use thereof in a treatment method. The optical assembly (1) comprises a light source (10), a first prism (11) and first and second guiding elements (12) and (13) with enclosed reflective...