US Patent Issued to The Hospital for Sick Children, The Governing Council of the University of Toronto on Aug. 4 for "Device for continuous measurement of cardiac activity" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,083, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to The Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto) and The Governing Council of the University of Toronto (Toronto).

"Device for continuous measurement of cardiac activity" was invented by Yu Sun (Toronto), Jason Maynes (Toronto), Li Wang (Toronto), Wenkun Dou (Toronto) and Craig Simmons (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device and method for measuring at least one cellular activity. The device includes: (a) a deformable polymeric base membrane having a first side and a second side, the polymeric base including a well having an opening on the first side, a cavity extending from the opening and a fl...