US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on March 4 for "Implants using ultrasonic backscatter for sensing physiological conditions" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,239,408, issued on March 4, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Implants using ultrasonic backscatter for sensing physiological conditions" was invented by Michel M. Maharbiz (El Cerrito, Calif.), Jose M. Carmena (Berkeley, Calif.), Mekhail Anwar (San Francisco), Burak A. Ozilgen (Berkeley, Calif.), Dongjin Seo (Albany, Calif.) and Federica Fava (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is an implantable device having a sensor configured to detect an amount of an analyte, a pH, a temperature, strain, or a pressure; and an ultrasonic transducer with a length of about 5 mm...