Patents Assigned to Cabochon Aesthetics, Inc.
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Publication number: 20100228207Abstract: A minimally invasive skin treatment system includes a platform having a recessed area on its bottom and one or more injection ports orthogonal to its top, each injection port including a through-hole to the recessed area. The system includes an injection device including a needle slidably disposed in a selective port such that the needle passes into the recessed area and percutaneously through a dermis disposed within the recessed area. A nozzle is configured to discharge a fluid at a high pressure in a direction orthogonal to an axis of the needle and parallel to the top of the platform to cut create a plane of dissection within the subcutaneous tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2010Publication date: September 9, 2010Applicant: Cabochon Aesthetics, Inc.Inventors: Sowmya Ballakur, Robert L. Clark, III, James E. Chomas, Ben F. Brian, III
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Publication number: 20100228182Abstract: A dermatological skin treatment device is provided. The device comprises a handpiece and a cutting tool, wherein the tool is inserted through the conduit and percutaneously inserted into a tissue disposed within a recessed area of the handpiece. The device and method cut the fibrous structures under the skin that cause cellulite at an angle substantially parallel to the surface of the skin and replace these structures with a non-cellulite forming structure by deploying a highly fibrous mesh through a single needle hole to create a highly fibrous layer directly or through wound healing processes.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2010Publication date: September 9, 2010Applicant: CABOCHON AESTHETICS, INC.Inventors: Robert L. Clark, III, James E. Chomas, Adnan I. Merchant, Ben F. Brian, III
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Publication number: 20100106063Abstract: A system for non-invasively creating a surgical lesion in subcutaneous tissue including an ultrasound generator, an ultrasound transducer operably connected to the ultrasound generator; an ultrasound enhancing target including at least two ultrasound reflecting filaments held in a spaced-apart relationship; said ultrasound generator supplying ultrasound at a pressure and frequency which will heat subcutaneous tissue and create a surgical lesion proximate the ultrasound enhancing target and will not create thermally mediated necrosis in the absence of the ultrasound enhancing target.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2008Publication date: April 29, 2010Applicant: Cabochon Aesthetics, Inc.Inventors: James E. Chomas, Erin E. Girard-Hughes, Sowmya Gowri Ballakur, Doug S. Sutton
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Publication number: 20100010420Abstract: An apparatus and method for treating subcutaneous tissues using acoustic waves in the range of low acoustic pressure ultrasound waves is disclosed. The method includes injections of enhancing agents, wherein disruption of subcutaneous tissues and subcutaneous cavitational bioeffects are produced by ultrasound waves having a power that will not produce tissue cavitation in the absence of the enhancing agents. The apparatus and method of use is useful for treatment of subcutaneous abnormalities including cellulite, lipomas, and tumors.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 14, 2009Publication date: January 14, 2010Applicant: CABOCHON AESTHETICS, INC.Inventors: Mark E. Deem, Hanson S. Gifford, III, Douglas S. Sutton
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Publication number: 20090326439Abstract: A needle with multiple injection ports is used in connection with a high-pressure injection system to infuse a treatment solution into a treatment area below the dermis of the skin. The needle has multiple tines that extend outwardly from the injection ports while inside the treatment area to disrupt tissue in the treatment area and to create multiple pathways of infusion. The tines are withdrawn and the needle is partially withdrawn, and solution is injected from the needle into the treatment area at high pressure to infuse the tissue within the treatment area. The burst, infusion, and a treatment such as an energy or third solution may be interleaved and repeated multiple times.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2009Publication date: December 31, 2009Applicant: CABOCHON AESTHETICS, INC.Inventors: James E. Chomas, Mark E. Deem, Hanson S. Gifford, Douglas S. Sutton
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Publication number: 20090275899Abstract: An apparatus and method for treating subcutaneous tissues using acoustic waves in the range of low acoustic pressure ultrasound waves is disclosed. The method includes injections of enhancing agents, wherein disruption of subcutaneous tissues and subcutaneous cavitational bioeffects are produced by ultrasound waves having a power that will not produce tissue cavitation in the absence of the enhancing agents. The apparatus and method of use is useful for treatment of subcutaneous abnormalities including cellulite, lipomas, and tumors.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2009Publication date: November 5, 2009Applicant: Cabochon Aesthetics, Inc.Inventors: Mark E. Deem, Hanson S. Gifford, III, Douglas Sutton
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Publication number: 20090275879Abstract: An apparatus and method for treating subcutaneous tissues using acoustic waves in the range of low acoustic pressure ultrasound waves is disclosed. The method includes injections of enhancing agents, wherein disruption of subcutaneous tissues and subcutaneous cavitational bioeffects are produced by ultrasound waves having a power that will not produce tissue cavitation in the absence of the enhancing agents. The apparatus and method of use is useful for treatment of subcutaneous abnormalities including cellulite, lipomas, and tumors.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2009Publication date: November 5, 2009Applicant: Cabochon Aesthetics, Inc.Inventors: Mark E. Deem, Hanson S. Gifford, III, Douglas Sutton
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Patent number: 7601128Abstract: An assembly for treating subcutaneous tissues using acoustic waves in the range of low acoustic pressure ultrasound waves is disclosed. The assembly comprises an acoustic wave generator and transducer for the generation and transmission of unfocused acoustic waves, a source of microbubble solution and solution injection members for percutaneously injecting the solution at a treatment area between 1 mm and 5 mm below the dermis. The assembly is useful for treatment of subcutaneous abnormalities including cellulite, lipomas and tumors.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2006Date of Patent: October 13, 2009Assignee: Cabochon Aesthetics, Inc.Inventors: Mark E. Deem, Hanson S. Gifford, III, Douglas Sutton
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Patent number: 7588547Abstract: An apparatus and method for treating subcutaneous tissues using acoustic waves in the range of low acoustic pressure ultrasound waves is disclosed. The method includes injections of enhancing agents, wherein disruption of subcutaneous tissues and subcutaneous cavitational bioeffects are produced by ultrasound waves having a power that will not produce tissue cavitation in the absence of the enhancing agents. The apparatus and method of use is useful for treatment of subcutaneous abnormalities including cellulite, lipomas, and tumors.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2006Date of Patent: September 15, 2009Assignee: Cabochon Aesthetics, Inc.Inventors: Mark E. Deem, Hanson S. Gifford, III, Douglas Sutton
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Publication number: 20090093738Abstract: A method for monitoring the amount of treatment delivered by a treatment device, comprising: providing a treatment device including at least one activation element; applying a reactive agent to a treatment area, the reactive agent reacting to energy delivered by the at least one activation element; actuating the treatment device and the activation element to deliver treatment.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2008Publication date: April 9, 2009Applicant: CABOCHON AESTHETICS, INC.Inventors: Adnan I. Merchant, Joel C. Colburn
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Publication number: 20090093723Abstract: An ultrasound device, comprising: a housing; an ultrasound transducer disposed within the housing, the transducer having a wear layer; at least one port formed in the housing; a lubricant reservoir operably connected to the at least one port; and a pump in fluid connection with the lubricant reservoir, the pump dispensing lubricant from the reservoir through the at least one port.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 3, 2008Publication date: April 9, 2009Applicant: CABOCHON AESTHETICS, INC.Inventor: Adnan I. Merchant
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Publication number: 20090093737Abstract: An ultrasound apparatus comprising an ultrasound transducer having a geometric focus; an acoustic lens assembly acoustically coupled to the ultrasound transducer; wherein the acoustic lens assembly includes a focal layer that serves to increase relative acoustic pressure in a treatment region proximal to the transducer's geometric focus.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 8, 2008Publication date: April 9, 2009Applicant: CABOCHON AESTHETICS, INC.Inventors: James E. Chomas, Timothy L. Proulx, Adnan I. Merchant
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Publication number: 20080248554Abstract: A device for generating microbubbles in a gas and liquid mixture and injection device, the device comprising: a housing defining a mixing chamber; means for mixing solution contained in the mixing chamber to generate microbubbles in the solution; a needle array removably attached to the housing and in fluid connection with the mixing chamber, the needle array including at least one needle; and a machine readable identifier on the needle array.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2007Publication date: October 9, 2008Applicant: Cabochon Aesthetics, Inc.Inventors: Adnan I. Merchant, Mark E. Deem
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Publication number: 20080197517Abstract: A device for generating microbubbles in a gas and liquid mixture and injection device, the device comprising: a housing defining a mixing chamber; means for mixing solution contained in the mixing chamber to generate microbubbles in the solution; a needle array removably attached to the housing and in fluid connection with the mixing chamber, the needle array including at least one needle; and at least one pressure sensor for measuring tissue apposition pressure, the pressure sensor being mounted on one of the housing and the needle array.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2007Publication date: August 21, 2008Applicant: Cabochon Aesthetics, Inc.Inventors: Adnan I. Merchant, Mark E. Deem
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Publication number: 20080200864Abstract: A device comprising a housing defining a mixing chamber; means for mixing solution contained in the mixing chamber to generate microbubbles in the solution; a needle array removably attached to the housing and in fluid connection with the mixing chamber, the needle array including at least one needle; and means for adjusting a needle insertion depth of the at least one needle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2007Publication date: August 21, 2008Applicant: Cabochon Aesthetics, Inc.Inventors: Michael C. Holzbaur, Adnan I. Merchant, Stephan T. Hoffmann, Doug S. Sutton, Mark E. Deem
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Publication number: 20080200863Abstract: A system comprising: a container containing a measured amount of a solution including at least one of a vasoconstrictor, a surfactant, and an anesthetic, the solution comprising a liquid and at least one of a gas and a fluid; a needle array in fluid connection with the container, the needle array including at least one needle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2007Publication date: August 21, 2008Applicant: Cabochon Aesthetics, Inc.Inventors: James E. Chomas, Adnan I. Merchant, Mark E. Deem
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Publication number: 20080195036Abstract: A device, comprising a housing defining a mixing chamber; means for mixing solution contained in the mixing chamber to generate microbubbles in the solution; a needle array removably attached to the housing and in fluid connection with the mixing chamber, the needle array including at least one needle; and tissue apposition means for pulling the needle array into apposition with tissue.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2007Publication date: August 14, 2008Applicant: Cabochon Aesthetics, Inc.Inventors: Adnan I. Merchant, Michael C. Holzbaur, Stephan T. Hoffmann, Doug S. Sutton, Mark E. Deem
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Publication number: 20080014627Abstract: A device for generating microbubbles in a gas and liquid mixture and injection device, the device comprising a housing defining a mixing chamber; means for mixing solution contained in the mixing chamber to generate microbubbles in the solution; and a needle array removably attached to the housing and in fluid connection with the mixing chamber, the needle array including at least one needle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 29, 2007Publication date: January 17, 2008Applicant: Cabochon Aesthetics, Inc.Inventors: Adnan Merchant, Michael Holzbaur, Stephan Hoffmann, Doug Sutton, Mark Deem, Steve Pence