US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS on Feb. 3 for "Modular piezoelectric intermedullary nail" (Kansas, Colorado, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,150, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS (Lawrence, Kan.).

"Modular piezoelectric intermedullary nail" was invented by Elizabeth Annamaria Friis (Lawrence, Kan.), Ember Krech (Lawrence, Kan.), Zachary Pessia (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Craig Cunningham (Arvada, Colo.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples of modular intermedullary nails are described. In one case, a modular intermedullary nail includes a proximal end component, a distal end component and a modular component. The modular component includes a piezoelectric segment to generate an electric charge based on mechanical stress applied to the modular intermedull...