US Patent Issued on Oct. 6 for "Tissue stimulating devices, systems, and methods" (Illinois, Utah, Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,108, issued on Oct. 6.

"Tissue stimulating devices, systems, and methods" was invented by Todd Shanks (Dallas), George Alexander Jones (River Forest, Ill.), Brent Felix (Salt Lake City), Jeremy Heiser (Salt Lake City) and Ron Groberg (Syracuse, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An orthopedic prosthesis for stimulating bone growth may include a substrate having at least one bone-facing surface and at least one internal surface, at least one piezoelectric nanostructure coupled to the at least one bone-facing surface of the substrate, at least one charge storing material placed within the orthopedic prosthesis proximate the at least on...