ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,065, issued on July 29.
"Implantable electronic device and endoprosthesis" was invented by Lipalo Mokete (Bryanston, South Africa).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable electronic device (12) and an endoprosthesis activity monitoring system (10) with a knee prosthesis (11) are developed. Knee prosthesis (11) has at least two blind cavities (35.1, 35.2), one in a lateral aspect of a femoral component (11.1) or tibial component (11.2), within which devices (12) are removably mounted and remote device (18) in wireless communication with devices (12) to receive data transmitted from it. Devices (12) are configured to track movemen...