ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,581, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to UNIVERSITY OF OREGON (Eugene, Ore.).
"Wireless measurement of suture tension" was invented by Keat Ghee Ong (Eugene, Ore.), Salil Sidharthan Karipott (Eugene, Ore.), Robert Erling Guldberg (Eugene, Ore.) and Kaylee M. Meyers (Eugene, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain examples of the disclosure concern an implantable sensor. The implantable sensor includes a sensor assembly configured to connect to a suture. The sensor assembly also includes a substrate and a resonant circuit coupled to the substrate. The resonant circuit is configured to electrically resonate at a resonant frequency...