US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on Sept. 8 for "System, device, and method for acupuncture needle placement" (Georgia Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,728,072, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio).

"System, device, and method for acupuncture needle placement" was invented by O'Connell Penrose (Gainsville, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An acupuncture point device inserts one of a plurality of acupuncture needles into a patient's skin at an identified acupressure point. The acupuncture point device includes an elongate casing configured to be handheld and has a passage extending through at least a portion thereof that forms an opening at a forward end of the elongate casing. A needle...