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...that the Band-Aid Bandage was invented by a Johnson & Johnson employee whose wife had cut herself? Earl Dickson's wife was rather accident prone, so he set out to develop a bandage that she could apply without help. He placed a small piece of gauze in the center of a small piece of surgical tape, and what we know today as the Band Aid bandage was born!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8012190 | Device for the treatment of chemically damaged hair and its method of use A device that treats chemically damaged hair by stimulating the circulation of blood and nutrients to the scalp while simultaneously promoting an environment that is not favorable for the propagation of bacteria. The device is composed of a blower that is attached t... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7998181 | System and method utilizing guided fluorescence for high intensity applications A fluorescence concentrator system that provides for high brightness light source. The system can include a host doped with fluorescent material, which is optically pumped by an adjacent illumination source. The fluorescence concentrator captures a portion of the is... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7896908 | Skin therapy system A light therapy appliance comprises an electronic circuit including Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) configured to emit light at one or more different wavelengths. A hand held enclosure containing the electronic circuit includes a front lens that directs the multiple di... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7485137 | Electric heat therapy apparatus An electric heat therapy apparatus which includes an upper cover, a holder, a heating unit including a control circuit, an electrical connector and a light bulb, a heat reservoir, wherein the holder has no upper end connected to a lower ed of the upper cover and a l... | 02/03/2009 |
| 7422599 | Device for treating infants with light A device for providing light, preferably UV light to infants and/or children. The device comprises a housing, inside the housing are one or more light sources adapted to emit light at a therapeutic wavelength or wavelengths. A series of apertures in the housing are ... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7381215 | System and method for determining an effectiveness of a ventricular pacing protocol for an implantable medical device An implantable medical device operates to promote intrinsic ventricular depolarization according to a pacing protocol. The medical device monitors the number of attempts made to promote intrinsic conduction in comparison with the number of successful cardiac cycles ... | 06/03/2008 |
| 7357811 | Integrated procedure light for infant care apparatus An infant warming apparatus for supporting an infant upon an infant platform. The apparatus has a procedure light that is recessed into the normal horizontal overhead housing of the apparatus and thus integrated into the infant apparatus. The procedure light is conv... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7326199 | System and method for flexible architecture for dermatologic treatments utilizing multiple light sources A system and method for providing light treatments to a patients skin, which could include both dermal and epidermal regions. The system and method utilize multiple hand pieces where each hand piece can deliver light from a different light source. The system and met... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7298767 | Portable laser device A hand-held laser device includes a casing formed with a substantially hollow interior space and having a laser emitter thereinside. The laser emitter is formed with an exciting lamp and a laser rod. A source generating a stream of gaseous coolant is provided within... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7291140 | System and method for low average power dermatologic light treatment device The invention comprises a system and method for providing for pulses or relatively low energy light to an area of skin being treated. Typically, these low energy pulses will include shorter wavelength light, and will provided for multiple pulses of light for the are... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7288107 | Tanning device A tanning device is described by which the bluish light emitted by mercury vapor lamps is converted into yellow or white light. For this purpose, the mercury lamps, or the sheets of transparent plastics material covering these lamps, are doped or coated with one or ... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7258438 | Retinal flux density meter and method of use A system for approximating flux density of light on a human retina. A housing has an opening allowing light to pass to inside the housing. A baffle coupled to the housing replicates a facial cutoff function response for the light inside the housing. Two detectors ar... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7258695 | Hair restoration device and methods of using and manufacturing the same The present invention provides for a hair restoration device and methods of manufacturing and using the same. In one embodiment, the hair restoration device is comprised of (i) a hairbrush body housing a plurality of wide-pattern laser LEDs configured to cooperate t... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7232450 | Apparatus and method for upper and lower beak treatment Apparatus and methods for treating the upper and lower beaks of poultry by non-contact heating of the upper and lower beaks of the bird are disclosed. The upper and lower beak treatment may include delivery of energy to the upper and lower beak in amounts sufficient... | 06/19/2007 |
| 7223281 | Multi-directional oral phototherapy applicator Oral phototherapy applicators are disclosed that are sized and shaped so as to fit at least partially in a user's mouth and have at least one radiation emitting element coupled to an apparatus body to irradiate a portion of the oral cavity with phototherapeutic radi... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7208007 | System and method utilizing guided fluorescence for high intensity applications A fluorescence concentrator system that provides for high brightness light source. The system can include a host doped with fluorescent material, which is optically pumped by an adjacent illumination source. The fluorescence concentrator captures a portion of the is... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7204846 | Beauty device A beauty device includes a light irradiation section that irradiates light of a predetermined wavelength, and an ion generating section that generates an ion. The light irradiation section is placed at one side surface of a main body of the beauty device, and the io... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7201767 | Device for ultraviolet radiation treatment of body tissues The device for ultraviolet radiation treatment of body tissues includes a UV light source, a halogen light source and a viewing mechanism all connected to a trifurcation joint by fiber optic cables. All three fiber optics cables are bundled together and exit the tri... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7201766 | Methods and apparatus for light therapy In a first aspect, a therapy device is provided. The therapy device includes (1) a hyperbaric chamber adapted to expose at least a target tissue area of a patient to a hyperbaric environment; and (2) a light therapy device adapted to expose the target tissue area of... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7198634 | Phototherapeutic treatment of skin conditions A method for treating an inflammation in skin of a patient includes irradiating the skin with infrared (IR) radiation in a first wavelength band and with violet/blue light in a second wavelength band. ... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7198633 | Light/electric probe system and method A stimulation probe system includes a light integrating chamber with a reflecting inner surface. A plurality of LEDs is mounted to introduce emitted light into the light integrating chamber. Each LED produces a different wavelength of light with the plurality of LED... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7190109 | Illuminator for photodynamic therapy An apparatus and method for photodynamic therapy or photodynamic diagnosis using an illuminator comprising a plurality of light sources generally conforming to a contoured surface and irradiating the contoured surface with substantially uniform intensity visible lig... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7166719 | Fluorinated photosensitizers related to chlorins and bacteriochlorins for photodynamic therapy Provided herein are compounds for detection, diagnosis and treatment of target tissues or target compositions, including hyperproliferative tissues such as tumors, using photodynamic methods. In particular, photosensitizer compounds that collect in hyperproliferativ... | 01/23/2007 |
| 7156865 | Irradiation apparatus and system, especially for photodynamic therapy To allow optimum adaptation of irradiation equipment, especially irradiation equipment for photodynamic therapy, to the individual anatomy of a patient, an irradiation head (1) is provided with a plate-shaped middle section (2) and plate-shaped lateral... | 01/02/2007 |
| 7150710 | Therapeutic methods using electromagnetic radiation This invention provides methods for treating a variety of disorders using electromagnetic radiation directed at excitable tissues, including nerves, muscles and blood vessels. By controlling the wavelength, the wavelength bandpass, pulse duration, intensity, pulse f... | 12/19/2006 |
| 7135035 | Thermodynamic resonance enclosure An enclosure is provided generally in the form of a box which provides a controlled thermal environment for the occupant. The enclosure includes a horizontal base supporting four corner posts extending vertically up from the base, with a roof above the posts and par... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7135033 | Phototreatment device for use with coolants and topical substances Methods and systems are disclosed for phototreatment in which replaceable containers comprising one or more adjuvant (consumable or re-useable) substances are employed. The adjuvant substance can be, for example, a topical substance or a coolant. Systems are disclos... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7131990 | Phototherapy system and device A phototherapy system and device is disclosed, including an array of light sources arranged so as to achieve substantially uniform distribution of light on a subject. The light sources can be arranged in a number of configurations, including but not limited to distr... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7110808 | Method of optimizing radiosurgery and radiotherapy with metalloporphyrins An apparatus and method for subsequent optimization of radiosurgery and radiotherapy is provided. The invention includes administering a metalloporphyrin to the patient, and then creating a 3-dimensional mapping of tissue through use of PET or SPECT. Malignant and p... | 09/19/2006 |
| 7097656 | Device for the therapeutic and cosmetic photo-processing of biological tissue and method for using the same The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for permanently or temporarily removing human hair, for miniaturizing the same or for changing the color thereof. This apparatus can also be used for coagulating blood vessels, veins or a selective injury of... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7097655 | Electric heat therapy technique and instrument An electric heat therapy instrument has an electric ampere controller 1 connected by two outside electric wires 2 to a 110-v electric outlet. The handle tube 3 is joined in its inferior extreme to a heating tube 9. A 110-v, 20-w bulb 6... | 08/29/2006 |
| 7087074 | Light therapy apparatus This invention discloses a light therapy apparatus which has a curing effect by means of light irradiation and which less stimulates an irradiated portion. The light therapy apparatus according to this invention has a light source (2) and a spectrofilter (... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7077857 | Pulse Cam Battery powered and wall plug powered handheld therapy devices for treating a variety of ailments such as inflammations, nerve problems, joint pain, muscle pain, as well as gall bladder type problems. The device can have a multi-faced shaped emitting main crystal wi... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7077544 | Light emitting panel assemblies A phototherapy device includes a transparent member and one or more light sources mounted in relation to the transparent member for directing light through the transparent member for distribution of the light to a body part of a patient receiving phototherapy. The l... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7070611 | Treatment device for topical photodynamic therapy and method of using same The invention relates to a light emitting treatment device including one or more light members which are configured to emit energy for photodynamic therapy at a treatment field. The treatment device may be made of a polymeric material configured to conform to a body... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7067276 | Method of using metaloporphyrins for treatment of arteriosclerotic lesions A method for treating arteriosclerotic lesions is provided wherein the method is characterized by administering a chemical compound to the patient, the compound being a porphyrin complexed with a radioactive metal. Cells which exhibit an affinity for the porphyrin e... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7053210 | Efficient synthesis of pyropheophorbide a and its derivatives A process for the preparation of pyropheophorbide a and its derivatives, including 3-devinyl-3-(1′-hexyloxy)ethyl-pyropheophorbide-a, otherwise known as HPPH, is provided. The process involves treating chlorin e6, in the form of its trimethyl ester, wit... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7041094 | Tissue treatment device and method A hair removal device (22) includes a cooling surface (34) which is used to contact the skin (6) prior to exposure to hair tissue-damaging laser light (74) passing from a radiation source (36) through a recessed window (46).... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7033381 | Photodynamic stimulation device and method A treatment device which uses cold red and infrared radiation for the photodynamic stimulation of cells, especially cells of human tissue. The described device produces a constant energy radiation by the use of semiconductor and/or laser diodes, which furthermore ra... | 04/25/2006 |
| 7027869 | Method for treating an asthma attack A method for treating the lung during an acute episode of reversible chronic obstructive pulmonary disease such as an asthma attack. The method comprises transferring energy to an airway wall of an airway such that a diameter of the airway is increased. The energy m... | 04/11/2006 |
