US 11,701,262 B2
Devices and methods for skin tightening
Geoffrey C. Gurtner, Palo Alto, CA (US); Michael T. Longaker, Atherton, CA (US); Reinhold H. Dauskardt, Menlo Park, CA (US); Paul Yock, Atherton, CA (US); John A. Zepeda, Los Altos, CA (US); Kenneth N. Horne, San Francisco, CA (US); Bankim H. Mehta, San Ramon, CA (US); Michael H. Rosenthal, Menlo Park, CA (US); Joseph Rimsa, Palo Alto, CA (US); Sergio Salinas, Redwood City, CA (US); Melanie Harris, Santa Ana, CA (US); Greg Spooner, San Francisco, CA (US); and Kin Chan, Menlo Park, CA (US)
Assigned to Neodyne Biosciences, Inc., Newark, CA (US)
Filed by Neodyne Biosciences, Inc., Newark, CA (US)
Filed on Jul. 3, 2018, as Appl. No. 16/26,895.
Application 16/026,895 is a continuation of application No. 13/411,443, filed on Mar. 2, 2012, abandoned.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/605,717, filed on Mar. 1, 2012.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/476,163, filed on Apr. 15, 2011.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/448,809, filed on Mar. 3, 2011.
Prior Publication US 2019/0015255 A1, Jan. 17, 2019
Int. Cl. A61F 13/00 (2006.01); A61F 13/02 (2006.01); A61B 18/20 (2006.01); A61B 17/00 (2006.01); A61B 18/00 (2006.01)
CPC A61F 13/00038 (2013.01) [A61B 18/203 (2013.01); A61F 13/00 (2013.01); A61F 13/00029 (2013.01); A61F 13/023 (2013.01); A61F 13/0223 (2013.01); A61F 13/0226 (2013.01); A61F 13/0256 (2013.01); A61F 13/0259 (2013.01); A61B 2017/00765 (2013.01); A61B 2018/0047 (2013.01); A61F 2013/006 (2013.01); A61F 2013/00374 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A treatment method, comprising:
adhering a dressing with a pre-determined strain to a skin treatment location before ablating a pattern of dressing openings in the dressing or ablating a pattern of dermal tissue openings at the skin treatment location using a laser system;
ablating a pattern of dressing openings in the dressing using the laser system and ablating a pattern of dermal tissue openings at the skin treatment location using the laser system while the dressing is adhered to the skin treatment location, wherein each dermal tissue opening of the pattern of dermal tissue openings is a double-tapered tissue opening and the laser system used to form the pattern of dressing openings is the same as the laser system used to form the pattern of dermal tissue openings;
compressing the pattern of dermal tissue openings by releasing the pre-determined strain in the dressing, wherein compressing the pattern of dermal tissue openings occurs in a transverse direction to a length of each double-tapered tissue opening.