US Patent Issued to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA on March 24 for "Implantable miniaturized and soft wireless sensing device to monitor tissue and bone deformation" (Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,394, issued on March 24, was assigned to ARIZONA BOARD OF REGENTS ON BEHALF OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Implantable miniaturized and soft wireless sensing device to monitor tissue and bone deformation" was invented by John Szivek (Tucson, Ariz.), Philipp Gutruf (Tucson, Ariz.) and David Stephen Margolis (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention features a sensor implant that can adhere to bone. The sensing device is capable of sensing bone strains and reporting them as well as loads passing through bone for extended periods of time. The sensor implant can also be used to monitor bone grow...