Patents Assigned to Follica, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20220193383
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods of treating baldness, treating alopecia, promoting hair growth, and/or promoting hair follicle development and/or activation or stimulation on an area of the skin of a subject (for example, a human) by subjecting said area of the skin to integumental perturbation. Integumental perturbation can be used in combination with other treatments for promoting hair growth. The invention provides devices for integumental perturbation for promoting hair growth, and provides pharmaceutical compositions for use in combination with integumental perturbation for promoting hair growth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: FOLLICA, INC.
    Inventors: Shikha P. Barman, William D. Ju, Scott C. Kellogg, Stephen M. Prouty, Eric Schweiger, Seth Lederman, Mary Osbakken, Alan D. Schinazi
  • Patent number: 11207511
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods of treating baldness, treating alopecia, promoting hair growth, and/or promoting hair follicle development and/or activation or stimulation on an area of the skin of a subject (for example, a human) by subjecting said area of the skin to integumental perturbation. Integumental perturbation can be used in combination with other treatments for promoting hair growth. The invention provides devices for integumental perturbation for promoting hair growth, and provides pharmaceutical compositions for use in combination with integumental perturbation for promoting hair growth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 28, 2021
    Assignee: Follica, Inc.
    Inventors: Shikha P. Barman, William D. Ju, Scott C. Kellogg, Stephen M. Prouty, Eric Schweiger, Seth Lederman, Mary Osbakken, Alan D. Schinazi
  • Publication number: 20130204238
    Abstract: The present methods, systems, and kits permit the induction of multimodal injury to a subject's skin. This approach maximizes the responsiveness of the treated area to treatments for producing hair follicles; exciting, activating, and dispersing existing hair-producing structures; and bringing about other physiological changes that correspond to increased hair growth and/or the growth of more robust hairs. In contrast with conventional methodologies, the present methods and systems provide heretofore unattainable advantages through use of a multi-pronged approach of de novo hair follicle production, in combination with reorganization of existing structures to produce new follicular units, as well as pharmaceutical enhancement of both processes, and other gainful techniques.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: FOLLICA, INC
    Inventors: Seth M. Lederman, Scott C. Kellogg, William Ju
  • Patent number: 8252749
    Abstract: The invention features methods, kits, and compositions for generating new hair follicles and growing hair on a subject.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignees: Follica, Inc., The Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania
    Inventors: David Steinberg, Kevin Pojasek, Stephen Prouty, George Cotsarelis, Mayumi Ito
  • Publication number: 20120156228
    Abstract: The invention features methods, kits, and compositions for generating new hair follicles and growing hair on a subject.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicants: Follica, Inc., The Trustees Of The University of Pennsylvania
    Inventors: David Steinberg, Kevin Pojasek, Stephen Prouty, George Cotsarelis, Mayumi Ito
  • Publication number: 20110130748
    Abstract: The present methods and systems provide the induction of preselected injury types to target areas of tissue in an iterative manner in order to provide beneficial treatment with respect to a desired body surface. The methods and systems disclosed herein may include the precise selection of target areas for treatment, which may itself involve identifying physical features that require treatment, distinguishing areas or features that are not suitable for treatment, or both. The present modalities are distinguishable from prior methodologies having lower rates of success because of the failure of the latter to match treatment or treatment type with specific physical features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: FOLLICA, INC.
    Inventors: Scott C. KELLOGG, Shikha P. BARMAN, Seth M. LEDERMAN
  • Publication number: 20110130706
    Abstract: The present methods and systems provide treatment of a preselected body surface by injuring a portion of the body surface, optionally applying a composition such as a pharmaceutical agent to the injured portion of the body surface, and selection of a further portion on the body surface for the same or different injury and optional contacting with the same or different composition, wherein the further portion has a preselected geometry with respect to the first injured portion. The repetition of the selection, injury, and optional exposure to a composition with respect to successive portions of the body surface, optionally under partial or total computer control, provides efficient treatment of the body surface pursuant to the objective of regeneration, remodeling, resurfacing, restoration, follicular neogenesis, neocollagenesis, stem cell recruitment, activation, or differentiation, reepitheliazation, wound healing, or any other desired biological or physical modification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: FOLLICA, INC.
    Inventors: Scott C. KELLOGG, Shikha P. BARMAN, Seth M. LEDERMAN
  • Publication number: 20110130711
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods and systems for increasing hair growth in subjects in need thereof due to male- or female-pattern hair loss, pathological hair loss, or hair loss after injury. By any use of any appropriate mechanical, electromagnetic, or chemical means, the present disclosure pertains to the segmentation of hair follicles into two or more disunited subunits in order to form new follicles from the respective subunits. In contrast with known techniques for bisecting hair follicles and as described more fully herein, the present methods and systems permit the bisection of single follicles or populations of follicles with a high degree of efficiency, and thereby represent an effective treatment option for those in need of increased hair growth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: FOLLICA, INC.
    Inventors: Seth M. LEDERMAN, Scott C. KELLOGG, Shikha P. BARMAN
  • Patent number: D810280
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: FOLLICA, INC.
    Inventors: David C. Tharp, Scott Kellogg, Daniel DeRuntz, Jason Robinson, Greg Wolos, Alex Staudt