ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,145, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Cardiac Pacemakers Inc. (St. Paul, Minn.).
"Integrated thermo-photonic chemical sensor" was invented by Yingbo Li (Woodbury, Minn.) and Michael J. Kane (St. Paul, Minn.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments herein relate to integrated thermo-photonic chemical sensors as part of an implantable sensing device. In a first aspect, an implantable sensing device is included having a sensing element, an optical excitation assembly configured to illuminate the sensing element, an optical detection assembly configured to receive optical signals from the sensing element, and a control circuit, where...