Surgery – Instruments – Heat application
Reexamination Certificate
2011-07-19
2011-07-19
Peffley, Michael (Department: 3739)
Surgery
Instruments
Heat application
C607S096000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07981111
ABSTRACT:
Disclosed is an apparatus and method which employs an energy source, one or more switches, electronic control circuitry, and a surface that can be placed in contact with a region of a person's skin containing a benign pigmented lesion. Within the apparatus, electrical current is passed through a heating element that is thermally coupled to the surface so that this surface is heated rapidly and then is subsequently cooled rapidly. By judicious choice of the rate of heating, maximum temperatures achieved, and rate of cooling, thermal injury to the skin can be confined primarily to the epidermal region of the skin in contact with the surface.
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Grove Robert E.
Island Tobin C.
Weckwerth Mark V.
King & Spalding L.L.P.
Peffley Michael
Tria Beauty, Inc.
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