US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on April 22 for "System for health monitoring on prosthetic and fixation devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,279,885, issued on April 22, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"System for health monitoring on prosthetic and fixation devices" was invented by Fabrizio Billi (Los Angeles), Per Henrik Borgstrom (Sacramento, Calif.), William Kaiser (Los Angeles) and Harry A McKellop (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A monitoring apparatus for a human body includes a node network with at least one motion sensor and at least one acoustic sensor. A processor is coupled to the node network, and receives motion information and acoustic information from the node network. The processor determines from the m...