US Patent Issued to William Marsh Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Heart Institute on March 24 for "Use of electrically conductive materials for electrophysiology" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,582,817, issued on March 24, was assigned to William Marsh Rice University (Houston), Baylor College of Medicine (Houston) and Texas Heart Institute (Houston).

"Use of electrically conductive materials for electrophysiology" was invented by Matteo Pasquali (Houston), Mehdi Razavi (Houston), Flavia Vitale (Houston), Colin Christopher Young (Houston) and Mark David Mccauley (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of improving electrical conduction across an impaired region of a tissue (e.g., myocardial tissue), includes applying an electrically conductive wiring (e.g., carbon nanotube fibers) across the impaired region. The elect...