Patents by Inventor Dale G. Kern

Dale G. Kern has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 12023491
    Abstract: A microcurrent treatment device has one or more electrodes or emitters configured for electrical communication with the surface of a subject's skin. A voltage or current supply is adapted to generate an electrical waveform or other energetic waveform for application to the skin surface, via the one or more electrodes or emitters, and a controller is configured to modulate the waveform. The controller can modulate consecutive pulses of the waveform so that the pulse width, period, frequency, amplitude or integrated amplitude of the consecutive pulses varies in a predefined, random, pseudorandom, or other aperiodic manner, or so that the pulses exhibit a degree of statistical randomness, over a predefined period. The period can cover a set of consecutive pulses defining a treatment cycle, or a continuous subset of consecutive pulses defining one or more phases of a treatment cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: NSE Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale G. Kern, DucToan Thanh Doan
  • Publication number: 20230293886
    Abstract: A method includes applying one or more electrodes to the skin or skin surface of a subject, applying a voltage or current signal to the skin surface via one or more of the electrodes, and modulating the signal to maintain treatment efficacy, or so that the power output can be charge balanced, or both. An agent can be applied to the skin surface during a treatment period defined after the voltage or current signal is applied. Permeability of the skin to one or more components of the agent is enhanced or increased during the treatment period, responsive to the modulated power output. A device for performing the method is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Dale G. Kern, Ganesh Diwakar
  • Publication number: 20230124830
    Abstract: A skin treatment device has one or more electrodes adapted for application of a current to a skin surface of a subject, a voltage or current supply configured to generate the current, and a controller configured to modulate the power output to the skin surface. The controller includes a monitor circuit configured to generate feedback responsive to a change in the power output to the skin surface, based at least in part on the current, and a control circuit configured to modulate the current, based on the feedback.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: DucToan T. Doan, Dale G. Kern, Craig J. Wallace
  • Publication number: 20220395684
    Abstract: A skin treatment device is provided with a thermally modulated treatment head adapted for contact with a user or other subject's skin. The device includes one or more thermal elements adapted to modulate the temperature of the head, a power source adapted to provide current to the thermal elements, and a controller adapted to modulate the head temperature by controlling the current delivered to the thermal elements. A topical agent can be disposed between the treatment head and the subject's skin, where the temperature of the topical agent is modulated in response to the temperature thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Richard R. Best, Dale G. Kern
  • Patent number: 11318307
    Abstract: A device for delivery of TENS current or electrostimulation has a first skin contact electrode mounted on a first non-conductive fingertip base and having at least one contact area for current-bearing contact with skin and a connection to a TENS current source and has a second skin contact electrode, mounted on a non-conductive fingertip base that is the same as the first non-conductive fingertip base or is a second non-conductive fingertip base and having at least one contact area for current-bearing contact with skin and a connection to TENS current source. A control and power unit that supplies TENS current to flow through skin contacting and positioned between the first and second electrodes, and enables selecting the level of the current or energy supplied.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: NSE Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale G. Kern, Richard R. Best, Toan Doan
  • Publication number: 20210308452
    Abstract: A microcurrent treatment device has one or more electrodes or emitters configured for electrical communication with the surface of a subject's skin. A voltage or current supply is adapted to generate an electrical waveform or other energetic waveform for application to the skin surface, via the one or more electrodes or emitters, and a controller is configured to modulate the waveform. The controller can modulate consecutive pulses of the waveform so that the pulse width, period, frequency, amplitude or integrated amplitude of the consecutive pulses varies in a predefined, random, pseudorandom, or other aperiodic manner, or so that the pulses exhibit a degree of statistical randomness, over a predefined period. The period can cover a set of consecutive pulses defining a treatment cycle, or a continuous subset of consecutive pulses defining one or more phases of a treatment cycle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Dale G. Kern, DucToan Thanh Doan
  • Publication number: 20210162212
    Abstract: A device for delivery of TENS current or electrostimulation has a first skin contact electrode mounted on a first non-conductive fingertip base and having at least one contact area for current-bearing contact with skin and a connection to a TENS current source and has a second skin contact electrode, mounted on a non-conductive fingertip base that is the same as the first non-conductive fingertip base or is a second non-conductive fingertip base and having at least one contact area for current-bearing contact with skin and a connection to TENS current source. A control and power unit that supplies TENS current to flow through skin contacting and positioned between the first and second electrodes, and enables selecting the level of the current or energy supplied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Dale G. Kern, Richard R. Best, Toan Doan
  • Patent number: 10765199
    Abstract: A cleansing device for mammalian skin includes a cleansing head having a plurality of elastomeric cleansing features extending away from the first surface and having an aspect ratio of about 1:5 to 10:1. The cleansing head is attached to a handle adapted to apply oscillating movement to one or more cleansing head sections to provide a total displacement per oscillation of about 2 mm to 8 mm at a frequency of about 5 Hz to 30 Hz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: NSE Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Dale G. Kern
  • Patent number: 10661072
    Abstract: A device for delivery of TENS current, attachable to a handheld skin treatment device with a mechanical motion source, comprises a housing for mounting on the handheld skin treatment device, with a conductive skin contact head with first and second electrodes for receiving a TENS signal as a voltage established between the electrodes and a connector mounted in or on the housing and configured to interface with the mechanical motion source to receive the motion of the motion source. The device has an energy converter in the housing to convert the motion into electrical current, a power control circuit for receiving the electrical current and converting it into at least one power supply output voltage; and a signal generation circuit connected to the at least one the power supply output voltage for producing as an output a TENS signal for delivery to skin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: NSE Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale G. Kern, Kevin S. Oberkramer, Jared H. Nathanson, Robert D. Miller, Paul J. Gleason
  • Publication number: 20190021480
    Abstract: A cleansing device for mammalian skin includes a cleansing head having a plurality of elastomeric cleansing features extending away from the first surface and having an aspect ratio of about 1:5 to 10:1. The cleansing head is attached to a handle adapted to apply oscillating movement to one or more cleansing head sections to provide a total displacement per oscillation of about 2 mm to 8 mm at a frequency of about 5 Hz to 30 Hz.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventor: Dale G. Kern
  • Publication number: 20180361137
    Abstract: A device for delivery of TENS current, attachable to a handheld skin treatment device with a mechanical motion source, comprises a housing for mounting on the handheld skin treatment device, with a conductive skin contact head with first and second electrodes for receiving a TENS signal as a voltage established between the electrodes and a connector mounted in or on the housing and configured to interface with the mechanical motion source to receive the motion of the motion source. The device has an energy converter in the housing to convert the motion into electrical current, a power control circuit for receiving the electrical current and converting it into at least one power supply output voltage; and a signal generation circuit connected to the at least one the power supply output voltage for producing as an output a TENS signal for delivery to skin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Dale G. Kern, Kevin S. Oberkramer, Jared H. Nathanson, Robert D. Miller, Paul J. Gleason
  • Patent number: 10080428
    Abstract: A cleansing device for mammalian skin includes a cleansing head having a plurality of elastomeric cleansing features extending away from the first surface and having an aspect ratio of about 1:5 to 10:1. The cleansing head is attached to a handle adapted to apply oscillating movement to one or more cleansing head sections to provide a total displacement per oscillation of about 2 mm to 8 mm at a frequency of about 5 Hz to 30 Hz.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: NSE Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Dale G. Kern
  • Patent number: 10046160
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for treating dermis and hypodermis by placing at least a first electrode at the surface of a to-be-treated skin region and contacting a second electrode at another position on the body to be treated then applying between the electrodes a current with pulse component, said current being sufficient to produce electro-osmotic pressure/velocity wavefronts corresponding to the fundamental frequency in blood vessels in the dermis and hypodermis of the skin region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: NSE Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Dale G. Kern
  • Publication number: 20180185675
    Abstract: Devices and methods are disclosed herein apply a fluid to the skin of a human or animal, in particular skin bearing hair or fur. The device comprises an array of hair plow elements, each hair plow element comprising a skin contact surface. Device is adapted to apply a fluid to skin and simultaneously lift any hair or fur covering the skin or hair or fur sprouting from the skin away from the skin so that the fluid is applied preferentially to the skin rather than to any hair or fur covering the skin. Additional embodiments of the device are described comprising a transcutaneous electrical stimulator adapted for supplying a current to the fluid and the skin. Methods of use of the device are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2017
    Publication date: July 5, 2018
    Inventors: Dale G. Kern, Richard R. Best
  • Patent number: D778065
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: NSE Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale G. Kern, Matthew James Herd, Charles Frazer Kilby
  • Patent number: D778066
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: NSE Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale G. Kern, Matthew James Herd, Charles Frazer Kilby
  • Patent number: D782197
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: NSE Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale G. Kern, Matthew James Herd, Charles Frazer Kilby
  • Patent number: D829445
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: NSE Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale G. Kern, Matthew James Herd, Charles Frazer Kilby, Richard R. Best, Prasad Weerakoon
  • Patent number: D847359
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: NSE Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Dale G. Kern, Richard R. Best, Toan Doan
  • Patent number: D896381
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: NSE Products, Inc.
    Inventor: Dale G. Kern