US Patent Issued to HillMed, University of Houston System on July 7 for "Devices, systems and methods of pelvic floor muscle examination" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,825, issued on July 7, was assigned to HillMed Inc. (Houston) and University of Houston System (Houston).

"Devices, systems and methods of pelvic floor muscle examination" was invented by Yingchun Zhang (Katy, Texas) and Nicholas Dias (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A glove-mountable system for pelvic floor muscle (PFM) examination includes a first flexible member including a force sensor configured to detect a force applied to a PFM of a patient by a user. A second flexible member includes an electromyography (EMG) electrode, a stimulation electrode, and a 3-D digitization probe. The second flexible member is stacked on the f...