US Patent Issued to University of Cincinnati on Aug. 26 for "Devices for integrated indirect sweat stimulation and sensing" (Ohio, Kentucky Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,396,661, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati).

"Devices for integrated indirect sweat stimulation and sensing" was invented by Zachary Cole Sonner (Elsmere, Ky.) and Jason C. Heikenfeld (Cincinnati).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sweat sensing device (20) comprises at least one sweat generation unit (22) capable of initiating sudomotor axon reflex (SAR) sweating in an indirect stimulation region and at least one analysis unit (24, 26) capable of sensing a physiological parameter of sweat, collecting a sweat sample, or a combination thereof. The at least one analysis unit (24, 26) is located above the ...