ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,208,261, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to INTELLIFUSE LLC (Union City, Tenn.).
"Load supporting implant" was invented by Todd Shanks (Dallas) and George Alexander Jones (River Forest, Ill.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load bearing implant provided with an auto-generator generating an electric charge. One or more nanogenerators are incorporated into or onto the load bearing implant or a delivery vehicle. When a portion of the outward surface of the load bearing implant is flexed, the resultant movement of an electroconductive piston moves the charge generating composition and generates an electric charge deliverable to the electroco...