US Patent Issued to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY, THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY on Sept. 29 for "Bioresorbable cardiovascular instruments, and operation and fabrication methods of same" (Illinois, District Of Columbia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,397, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Ill.) and THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (Washington).

"Bioresorbable cardiovascular instruments, and operation and fabrication methods of same" was invented by John A. Rogers (Wilmette, Ill.), Yeonsik Choi (Evanston, Ill.), Igor Efimov (Washington) and Rose T. Yin (Washington).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device implantable on a target of interest of a subject for pacemaker, neuromodulator, and/or defibrillator therapy comprises a wireless power harvesting unit configured to deliver power via resonant inductive coupling to the target tissue for stimula...