US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The Brigham and Women's Hospital on Sept. 8 for "Gastric resident electronics" (Massachusetts, Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,827, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and The Brigham and Women's Hospital Inc. (Boston).

"Gastric resident electronics" was invented by Robert S. Langer (Newton, Mass.), Carlo Giovanni Traverso (Newton, Mass.) and Yong Lin Kong (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Gastric resident electronics, devices, systems, and related methods are generally provided. Some embodiments comprise administering (e.g., orally) an (electronic) resident structure to a subject (e.g., a patient) such that the (electronic) resident structure is retained at a location internal to the subje...