US Patent Issued to Canary Medical Switzerland on Nov. 18 for "Implantable medical device with mechanical stress sensor" (California, Minnesota Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,471,787, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Canary Medical Switzerland AG (Baar, Switzerland).

"Implantable medical device with mechanical stress sensor" was invented by Peter J. Schiller (Shakopee, Minn.), Jeffrey M. Gross (Carlsbad, Calif.) and Heidi Sharipov (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are devices, systems, and methods for in vivo monitoring of internal mechanical stress associated with physiological phenomena of an internal body structure, such as the heart, lungs and/or gastrointestinal tract, from within the host. The disclosed devices, systems, and methods include an in vivo mechanical stress sensor implant...