Patents by Inventor Richard R. Best

Richard R. Best 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).

  • 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: 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
  • 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: 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