US Patent Issued to The Johns Hopkins University on Feb. 10 for "Apparatus and method for patient monitoring based on ultrasound modulation" (Maryland, Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,543,955, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore).

"Apparatus and method for patient monitoring based on ultrasound modulation" was invented by Emad M. Boctor (Ellicott City, Md.), Maged Harraz (Ellicott City, Md.), Ernest M. Graham (Clarksville, Md.), Jeeun Kang (Baltimore), Raymond C. Koehler (Catonsville, Md.) and Adarsha Malla (Dublin, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure is associated with monitoring health of a patient. An example electromagnetic-evoked acoustic device includes an electromagnetic component to emit energy toward tissue of a patient to cause the energy to be abs...