ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,864, issued on March 31, was assigned to DePuy Synthes Products Inc. (Raynham, Mass.).
"Sensors implantable into a patient's body, systems, and methods of using the same" was invented by George Mikhail (Downingtown, Pa.), Filip Leszko (West Chester, Pa.), Glen Pierson (Glenmoore, Pa.), Brett Ivan Wakley (Boston), Arun Venkatasubramanian (Singapore) and Rostislav Lemdiasov (Newton, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In one example, a sensor is configured to be implanted into a patient's body. The sensor has at least one sensing element, a measurement device in communication with the at least one sensing element, and an internal wir...