US Patent Issued to University of Connecticut on Oct. 20 for "Implantable piezoelectric scaffold and exercise-induced piezoelectric stimulation" (Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,316, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to University of Connecticut (Farmington, Conn.).

"Implantable piezoelectric scaffold and exercise-induced piezoelectric stimulation" was invented by Thanh Duc Nguyen (South Windsor, Conn.) and Yang Liu (Willimantic, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable scaffold is provided including multiple piezoelectric films and at least one compressible intervening layer. A first of the piezoelectric films is on a first side of the compressible intervening layer and a second of the plurality of piezoelectric films is on a second side of the compressible intervening layer opposite the first piez...