ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,377, issued on May 6, was assigned to BBI MEDICAL INNOVATIONS LLC (Los Angeles).

"Measurement of tissue viability" was invented by Martin F. Burns (Los Angeles), Sara Barrington (Thousand Oaks, Calif.) and Graham O. Ross (Oceanside, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides apparatuses and methods for measuring sub-epidermal moisture as an indication of tissue viability and providing information regarding the location of a boundary of non-viable tissue."

The patent was filed on March 11, 2022, under Application No. 17/692,926.

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