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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 09, 2003
Filed:
Mar. 26, 2002
Applicant:
Inventors:
Michael Kreindel, Haifa, IL;
Amir Waldman, Yarqona, IL;
Assignee:
Syneron Medical Ltd., Or Akiva, IL;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/00 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61F 2/00 ;
Abstract
A method and system for treating skin. The method comprises deforming the skin so that a region of skin protrudes from surrounding skin, and applying radio frequency (RF) energy to the skin. The system comprises a skin deformer that deforms a region of skin so that a region of skin protrudes out from surrounding skin. The system also comprises one or more RF elemodes configured to apply RF energy to the skin. The invention may be used to treat subcutaneous adipose tissue and cartage.
Published as:
US2003187488A1; WO03079916A1; AU2003212641A1; US6662054B2; EP1489984A1; CN1642489A; JP2005528935A; CN100400009C; JP4452511B2; EP2286751A1;