US Patent Issued to University of Utah Research Foundation on July 15 for "Implantable and biodegradable smart hydrogel micromechanical resonators with ultrasound readout for biomedical sensing" (Utah Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,357,269, issued on July 15, was assigned to University of Utah Research Foundation (Salt Lake City).

"Implantable and biodegradable smart hydrogel micromechanical resonators with ultrasound readout for biomedical sensing" was invented by Christopher F. Reiche (Salt Lake City), Florian Solzbacher (Salt Lake city), Navid Farhoudi (Salt Lake City), Steven M. Blair (Salt Lake City), Jules J. Magda (Salt Lake City), Lars B. Laurentius (Cottonwood Heights, Utah) and Prattay Deepta Kairy (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for measuring changes in smart hydrogel microresonator structures positioned in an in vivo o...