US Patent Issued to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION on Sept. 1 for "System for automatic and early detection of free flap failure" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,588, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH-OF THE COMMONWEALTH SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION (Pittsburgh).

"System for automatic and early detection of free flap failure" was invented by Michael A. Rothfuss (Pittsburgh), Ervin Sejdic (Pittsburgh), Michael L. Gimbel (Pittsburgh) and Murat Akcakaya (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for monitoring free flap patency includes transmit and receive transducers structured to be coupled to a blood vessel, and a plurality of circuitry modules structured to insonify a blood flow volume within the blood vessel and receive a scattered signal from the receive t...