US Patent Issued to Western Sydney University on Oct. 20 for "Anorectal biofeedback device" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,765,804, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Western Sydney University (Penrith, Australia).

"Anorectal biofeedback device" was invented by Jerry Zhou (Penrith, Australia), Bahman Javadi (Penrith, Australia), Vincent Ho (Penrith, Australia), Eric Siu (Penrith, Australia), Lloyd Coleman (Penrith, Australia), Barbara Van de Sande (Penrith, Australia) and Bill Karabetsos (Penrith, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressure sensing device including an elongate housing configured to be at least partially inserted into a user, and that defines an external surface having a proximal end and a distal end defining a longitudinal axis there...