US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on June 17 for "Implantable, biofuel cells for self-charging medical devices" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,979, issued on June 17, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Implantable, biofuel cells for self-charging medical devices" was invented by Joseph Wang (San Diego), Krishnan Chakravarthy (San Diego) and Itthipon Jeerapan (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are devices, systems and methods for implantable biofuel cells. In some aspects, a biofuel cell device for extracting energy from a biological fluid includes a substrate including two compartments each with one or more openings; an anode assembly disposed in the substrate and including an anode electrode and functiona...