ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,780, issued on April 14, was assigned to MEDIZINISCHES LASERZENTRUM LUBECK GMBH (Lubeck, Germany).

"Laser therapy device for therapy of a living tissue" was invented by Eric Seifert (Lubeck, Germany), Ralf Brinkmann (Lubeck, Germany) and Hossameldin Abbas (Lubeck, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A laser therapy device comprises a pulsed laser light source. Each triggering of tissue irradiation causes application of a first heating laser pulse of a first power and a first pulse duration and at least a second heating laser pulse of a second power and a second pulse duration to the tissue. Changes in volume resulting from the ri...