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University of Pittsburgh Announces Six Patents Issued in March 2022

Posted on April 6, 2022 by Mike Yeomans

Pitt innovators were issued 6 U.S. patents in March 2022.

Featured patent: 11,272,840  “Touch Probe Passively Powered Wireless Stent Antenna for Implanted Sensor Powering Interrogation”

Smart stents are capable of wirelessly reporting the degree of restenosis, alerting the patient to the need for a hospital visit before damage due to heart attack, blood clot, or aneurysm can occur. Powering and communicating with novel implanted smart stents remain a challenge. Ervin Sejdic, Associate Professor, Departments of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bioengineering and Biomedical Informatics, has developed a skin-contact touch probe antenna that can be used to both power and communicate with implanted stents when the stents are configured as antennas. The touch probe confines power within a small area around the implant, reducing the risk of interference with nearby electronics, such as those in an operating room, and other implanted electronics, such as pacemakers. The touch probe method also increases security, reducing the chance of information being mistakenly read from a device without deliberate physical access.

For more information on this technology, including licensing, contact Janice Panza at jpanza@innovation.pitt.edu.

 

Patent
Number
Title   Inventor(s)   Licensing Manager        Status
 
11,298,452 Extracorporeal Ambulatory Assist Lung Richard Jeffries; William Federspiel; Brian Frankowski; Christian Bermudez; James Antaki; William Wagner; Sang Ho Ye Maria Vanegas Available for Licensing
 
11,272,840 Touch Probe Passively Powered Wireless Stent Antenna for Implanted Sensor Powering Interrogation Michael Rothfuss; Ervin Sejdic; Michael Gimbel Janice Panza Available for Licensing
 
D946722 Toilet Seat Wrap Rory Cooper; Rosemarie Cooper George Coulston Available for Licensing
 
11,280,866 System and Methods for T1 and T2 Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging Hoby Hetherington; Chan-Hong Moon; Julie Pan Robert Racunasl Available for Licensing
 
11,286,287 Novel Antimicrobial and Anti-Cancer Therapy Yuanpu Di; Berthony Deslouches Andrew Remes Licensed
 
11,285,318 Peripheral Neuromodulation to Treat Bladder and Bowel Dysfunction Changfeng Tai Maria Vanegas Available for Licensing
 

Pitt innovators who feel their discoveries may have underlying intellectual property with commercial potential should disclose their innovation to the Innovation Institute.

 

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