US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on April 7 for "System and method for implantable muscle interface" (Maryland Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,172, issued on April 7, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"System and method for implantable muscle interface" was invented by Connor Glass (Baltimore), Nitish V. Thakor (Baltimore), Sami Tuffaha (Baltimore) and Alexis Lowe (Baltimore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable human-machine interfacing system is disclosed that includes an implantable muscle interface device including a substrate including a first plurality of sensors and a second plurality of amplifiers that capture and amplify, respectively, electromyographic (EMG) signals arising from motor units under control of neural signals representa...