ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,512, issued on May 26, was assigned to VENUS CONCEPT INC. (Toronto).

"Esthetic apparatus useful for increasing skin rejuvenation and methods thereof" was invented by Yoni Iger (Haifa, Israel), Ognjen Petrovic (San Jose, Calif.), Haim Epshtein (Pardes Hana-Karkur, Israel), Cliff Oostman (Hansville, Wash.) and Vadim Polyakov (Petach Tikva, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system is provided for increasing skin rejuvenation of a region of a patient's skin comprising a pulsed electromagnetic field (PEMF) frequency generator for constantly providing electromagnetic pulses to said region of a patient's skin and a deep tissue diatherm...