US Patent Issued to Fenwood Labs on May 27 for "Safely ingestible batteries that rapidly deactivate in biological environments and methods of making same" (Connecticut, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,315,942, issued on May 27, was assigned to Fenwood Labs Inc. (Fairfield, Conn.).

"Safely ingestible batteries that rapidly deactivate in biological environments and methods of making same" was invented by Bryan Laulicht (Danbury, Conn.), Jonah Myerberg (Lexington, Mass.), Ravikumar Vasudevan (Fairfield, Conn.) and Zachary Kelly (Middletown, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides batteries that have a reduced risk or no risk of esophageal or gastrointestinal damage in a conductive aqueous environment, such as when accidentally swallowed. The batteries are, in some embodiments, nominally 9V, 3V or 1.5V coin or...