US Patent Issued to The Penn State Research Foundation on Sept. 30 for "Testing surface for advanced medical training" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,431,039, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to The Penn State Research Foundation (University Park, Panama).

"Testing surface for advanced medical training" was invented by Jason Z. Moore (State College, Pa.), Scarlett Miller (State College, Pa.), Dailen Brown (State College, Pa.), Haroula Tzamaras (State College, Pa.), Jessica M. Gonzalez-Vargas (State College, Pa.) and E. David C. Han (Hummelstown, Pa.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A medical training system is provided having a housing, a phantom tissue simulant surface, an insertion hole, at least one medical instrument with a tip configured to pierce the phantom tissue simulant surfa...