US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Nanyang Technological University on Jan. 20 for "Electroceutical patch and catheter system and uses thereof" (Singaporean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,527,561, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.) and Nanyang Technological University (Singapore).

"Electroceutical patch and catheter system and uses thereof" was invented by Manisha Singh (Singapore), Terry Steele (Singapore) and Ellen Roche (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system containing an electroceutical patch (ePATCH) in combination with a catheter having retractable electrodes (CATRE) which can be used to treat tissue defects, such for the repair of lumen defects, is described herein. The system was shown to be able to seal lumen defects on both synthetic and...