US Patent Issued to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM on Sept. 15 for "Acousto-mechanic sensors and applications of same" (Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,816, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Ill.) and BOARD OF REGENTS, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SYSTEM (Austin, Texas).

"Acousto-mechanic sensors and applications of same" was invented by Keum San Chun (Evanston, Ill.), Jong Yoon Lee (Evanston, Ill.), Youn Joung Kang (Evanston, Ill.), Hyoyoung Jeong (Evanston, Ill.), John A. Rogers (Wilmette, Ill.) and Shuai Xu (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This invention in one aspect relates to an acousto-mechanic sensor includes at least one inertial measurement unit (IMU) for operably detecting vibratory and motion signatures of physiological proc...