US 11,832,882 B2
Method and apparatus for skin stabilization and positioning
Dieter Manstein, Coral Gables, FL (US)
Filed by Dieter Manstein, Coral Gables, FL (US)
Filed on Dec. 6, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/543,264.
Application 17/543,264 is a continuation of application No. 16/129,128, filed on Sep. 12, 2018, granted, now 11,191,590, issued on Dec. 7, 2021.
Application 16/129,128 is a continuation of application No. 14/461,203, filed on Aug. 15, 2014, granted, now 10,092,354, issued on Oct. 9, 2018.
Application 14/461,203 is a continuation of application No. 12/910,646, filed on Oct. 22, 2010, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/254,061, filed on Oct. 22, 2009.
Prior Publication US 2022/0087745 A1, Mar. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. A61B 18/20 (2006.01); A61B 18/00 (2006.01); A61M 37/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/15 (2006.01); A61B 5/151 (2006.01); A61H 39/02 (2006.01)
CPC A61B 18/20 (2013.01) [A61B 5/150022 (2013.01); A61B 5/15136 (2013.01); A61B 5/150748 (2013.01); A61M 37/00 (2013.01); A61B 18/203 (2013.01); A61B 2018/0047 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00452 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00458 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00577 (2013.01); A61B 2018/2005 (2013.01); A61H 39/02 (2013.01); A61M 2037/0007 (2013.01)] 23 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for ablating at least one particular location of a biological tissue, comprising:
a film configured to engage with at least one portion of a surface of the tissue that includes the at least one particular location; and
a device comprising a source of ablative electromagnetic radiation,
wherein the film comprises at least one first feature, and the device comprises at least one second feature,
wherein the at least one first feature comprises a first track arrangement and the at least one second feature comprises a second track arrangement,
wherein at least one of the first track arrangement or the second track arrangement extends for approximately the entire distance between opposing edges of at least respective one of the device or the film along approximately a straight axis,
wherein at least one portion of the film comprises one or more first holes,
wherein the at least one first feature is structured or configured to engage or cooperate with the at least one second feature of the device to position the device over the particular location, such that, in operation, the device provides an ablative radiation through the one or more holes provided in the film over the at least one particular location such that the ablative radiation passes through an entire thickness of at least one of the one or more first holes, and impacts the tissue at the at least one particular location to ablate at least one second hole in the tissue when the device is activated.