US Patent Issued to VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY on Sept. 15 for "Wearable device to monitor musculoskeletal loading, estimate tissue microdamage and provide injury risk biofeedback" (Tennessee Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,839, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY (Nashville, Tenn.).

"Wearable device to monitor musculoskeletal loading, estimate tissue microdamage and provide injury risk biofeedback" was invented by Emily Matijevich (Nashville, Tenn.), Leon Scott (Nashville, Tenn.) and Karl Zelik (Nashville, Tenn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable device operably worn by a user for monitoring musculoskeletal loading on structure inside the body of the user includes a plurality of sensors, each sensor configured to be operably worn by the user at a predetermined location and configured to detect information about a biomechan...