US Patent Issued to Washington University, Northwestern University on Jan. 13 for "Wireless probes for monitoring blood flow in biological tissue" (Missouri, Illinois Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,521,030, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Washington University (St. Louis) and Northwestern University (Evanston, Ill.).

"Wireless probes for monitoring blood flow in biological tissue" was invented by Mitchell Pet (St. Louis), Matthew MacEwan (Olivette, Mo.), John Rogers (Evanston, Ill.), Changsheng Wu (Evanston, Ill.), Di Lu (Evanston, Ill.), Wubin Bai (Evanston, Ill.), Hexia Guo (Evanston, Ill.), Shuo Li (Evanston, Ill.) and Hany Arafa (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable probe includes a sensor module and a control module. The sensor module includes a transmission source to transmit signals into the tissue at ...