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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 13, 2018
Filed:
Sep. 24, 2014
Applicant:
Cutera, Inc., Brisbane, CA (US);
Inventor:
Michael Karavitis, San Pedro, CA (US);
Assignee:
Cutera, Inc., Brisbane, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 18/20 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
A61B 18/20 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of removing tattoos or pigmented lesions by generating at least two laser pulses having a pulse width in the picosecond range, where the peak power of each pulse is less than 15 GW/cmand where the spacing between the pulses is less than ten nanoseconds, and directing the pulses to the tattoo or pigmented lesion to be removed.