| US 10,376,307 B2 | ||
| Vaginal remodeling device and methods | ||
| Jonathan B. Parmer, Woodside, CA (US); Ian F. Smith, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Chun-Chih Cheng, Sunnyvale, CA (US); Patrick Karl Howe, Hollister, CA (US); Sean Yasuo Sullivan, Santa Clara, CA (US); Jerome Jackson, Los Altos, CA (US); Stanley Levy, Jr., Saratoga, CA (US); Sherree Leigh Lucas, Berkeley, CA (US); and Steven Marc Lopez, Los Altos, CA (US) | ||
| Assigned to Viveve, Inc., Englewood, CO (US) | ||
| Filed by VIVEVE, INC., Sunnyvale, CA (US) | ||
| Filed on Jan. 19, 2016, as Appl. No. 15/1,021. | ||
| Application 15/001,021 is a division of application No. 12/884,108, filed on Sep. 16, 2010, granted, now 9,271,785. | ||
| Claims priority of provisional application 61/243,686, filed on Sep. 18, 2009. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2016/0135876 A1, May 19, 2016 | ||
| Int. Cl. A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 18/00 (2006.01); A61B 18/12 (2006.01); A61B 18/14 (2006.01); A61B 90/00 (2016.01); A61H 19/00 (2006.01); A61H 21/00 (2006.01); A61H 23/02 (2006.01) | ||
| CPC A61B 18/1485 (2013.01) [A61B 18/1233 (2013.01); A61B 90/06 (2016.02); A61B 2017/00084 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00023 (2013.01); A61B 2018/0091 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00559 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00589 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00642 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00678 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00702 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00791 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00904 (2013.01); A61B 2090/065 (2016.02); A61H 19/00 (2013.01); A61H 21/00 (2013.01); A61H 23/0245 (2013.01); A61H 2201/0153 (2013.01); A61H 2201/0207 (2013.01); A61H 2201/0214 (2013.01); A61H 2201/0221 (2013.01); A61H 2201/0242 (2013.01); A61H 2201/0292 (2013.01); A61H 2201/10 (2013.01); A61H 2201/5038 (2013.01); A61H 2201/5097 (2013.01); A61H 2230/50 (2013.01); A61H 2230/65 (2013.01)] | 15 Claims |
| 1. A method of determining if an energy-delivery element of a treatment tip for an RF energy device is in adequate communication with a tissue to be treated, without determining an electrical impedance from the tissue, the method comprising: determining the time since the energy-delivery element of the treatment tip was last activated;
taking a temperature of one or more sites on the treatment tip;
determining if the energy-delivery element is in contact with the tissue without applying RF energy to the tissue by comparing the temperature of the one or more sites on the treatment tip to a threshold function for the time since the treatment tip was last activated; and
indicating if the energy-delivery element is in contact with the tissue.
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