US Patent Issued to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation on Aug. 11 for "Apparatus for pre-surgical skin treatment" (Wisconsin Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,857, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (Madison, Wis.).

"Apparatus for pre-surgical skin treatment" was invented by Lisa Cotter (Madison, Wis.), Eric Cotter (Madison, Wis.) and Brian Foley Grogan (Madison, Wis.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A presurgical skin treatment device uses blue light (415 nm) coupled with a real-time, skin-positioned dose sensor to provide precise dosing within a range of eradicating C. acnes while reducing skin irritation. Practical incorporation into surgical procedures is provided by a threshold detection providing an indication that correct dose levels have been obta...