US Patent Issued to THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE on March 25 for "Method and apparatus to measure bone hemodynamics and discriminate healthy from diseased bone, and open reduction internal fixation implant with integrated optical sensors" (New Hampshire Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,066, issued on March 25, was assigned to THE TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE (Hanover, N.H.).

"Method and apparatus to measure bone hemodynamics and discriminate healthy from diseased bone, and open reduction internal fixation implant with integrated optical sensors" was invented by Jonathan Thomas Elliott (Meriden, N.H.), Ida Leah Gitajn (Hanover, N.H.), Shudong Jiang (Hanover, N.H.) and Brian Pogue (Hanover, N.H.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ORIF implant has an electronics module with a stimulus light and optical sensors for sensing fluorescent emissions coupled to a near-field digital radio. The implant is used with a near-fie...