ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,478,790, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to William Marsh Rice University (Houston).

"Implantable bioelectronic devices based on magnetoelectric material" was invented by Jacob T. Robinson (Houston), Wonjune Kim (Houston), C. Anne Tuppen (Houston), Kaiyuan Yang (Houston) and Yiwei Zou (Houston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Some disclosed embodiments relate to a system (and/or use of or manufacturing) that includes: a magnetoelectric (ME) component comprising: one or more first layers, wherein each of the one or more first layers comprises a piezoelectric material; one or more second layers, wherein each of the one or more second layers ...