ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,276, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to PhysioHand Inc. (San Carlos, Calif.).

"Mapping fascial therapeutic locations onto a patient body image" was invented by Ismail Bustany (San Carlos, Calif.) and Tala Khalaf (San Carlos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional (3D) digital image of an individual patient marked with target therapeutic locations on a skin surface of the patient is used for locating those treatment locations on a patient's skin for fascial manipulation and other treatments. The 3D image may be obtained by merging an unmarked 3D digital patient model image converted from a 2D optical image with a "g...