US 12,138,487 B2
Pulsed acoustic wave dermal clearing system and method
Christopher Capelli, Houston, TX (US); and David Robertson, Houston, TX (US)
Assigned to Soliton, Inc., Houston, TX (US)
Appl. No. 16/087,976
Filed by Soliton, Inc., Houston, TX (US)
PCT Filed Mar. 23, 2017, PCT No. PCT/US2017/023728
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 24, 2018,
PCT Pub. No. WO2017/165595, PCT Pub. Date Sep. 28, 2017.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/312,372, filed on Mar. 23, 2016.
Prior Publication US 2020/0206072 A1, Jul. 2, 2020
Int. Cl. A61H 23/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 17/22 (2006.01); A61B 18/00 (2006.01); A61B 18/20 (2006.01); A61H 23/02 (2006.01); A61H 23/04 (2006.01); A61N 7/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61N 7/00 (2013.01) [A61B 18/203 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00769 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00458 (2013.01); A61B 2018/0047 (2013.01); A61B 2018/00476 (2013.01); A61N 2007/0034 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for acoustic treatment of tissue to disperse vacuoles within the tissue, the method comprising:
identifying a location of tissue containing intradermal vacuoles;
coupling an acoustic wave generator to the tissue containing the intradermal vacuoles; and
directing pulsed acoustic waves from the acoustic wave generator into the tissue containing the intradermal vacuoles to thereby disperse the intradermal vacuoles;
wherein the intradermal vacuoles include non-encapsulated vacuoles, the non-encapsulated vacuoles being devoid of tattoo pigment particle agglomerations.