US Patent Issued to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center on Nov. 18 for "Needle impedance electromyography and electrical impedance imaging for enhanced muscle diagnostics" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,824, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc. (Boston).

"Needle impedance electromyography and electrical impedance imaging for enhanced muscle diagnostics" was invented by Benjamin Sanchez (Brookline, Mass.), Seward B. Rutkove (Brookline, Mass.) and Hyeuknam Kwon (Newton, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein are embodiments of methods and apparatus for diagnosing neuromuscular diseases using an impedance-EMG needle, and for generating electrical impedance images using an impedance needle. Some embodiments provide an apparatus including an impedance-EMG needle, including both EMG e...