ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,881, issued on July 21, was assigned to Softwave Medical Ltd. (Yokneam Illit, Israel).
"Vector tightening" was invented by Dany Berube (Milpitas, Calif.) and Shimon Eckhouse (Haifa, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for generating directional skin tightening, including: providing at least one alignment indication of at least one energy-emitting transducer; aligning at least one energy-emitting transducer on a surface of a skin according to the at least one alignment indication; applying energy by the at least one aligned energy-emitting transducer; generating directional skin tightening, by forming elongated spaced-apart...