Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Free-floating millimeter-sized distributed implantable gastric seeds
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Application No.: US17047150Application Date: 2019-04-11
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Publication No.: US11413465B2Publication Date: 2022-08-16
- Inventor: Mehdi Kiani
- Applicant: The Penn State Research Foundation
- Applicant Address: US PA University Park
- Assignee: The Penn State Research Foundation
- Current Assignee: The Penn State Research Foundation
- Current Assignee Address: US PA University Park
- Agency: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
- International Application: PCT/US2019/026887 WO 20190411
- International Announcement: WO2019/200031 WO 20191017
- Main IPC: A61N1/372
- IPC: A61N1/372 ; G16H40/67 ; G16H30/40 ; A61N1/05 ; A61N1/36 ; A61N1/378 ; H04B11/00

Abstract:
A method and system for gastric stimulation and imaging for a user. The system having an array of millimeter-sized gastric seeds implanted in a stomach area of a user. Each gastric seed is ultrasonically powered and communicates using a transducer, and the transducer has a recorder to measure a bioelectrical activity in the stomach area of the user. A wearable unit (WU) is worn or carried by the user, and the WU wirelessly powers the gastric seeds. The WU wirelessly communicates with the gastric seeds, and the gastric seeds communicate a parameter to the WU based on the bioelectrical activity. Received pulses by the seeds can be used to localize the position of the seeds and guide the wireless power/data transmission in a self-image-guided manner. A processing unit (PU) wirelessly communicates with the WU, and the WU communicates the parameters from the gastric seeds to the PU.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210162223A1 FREE-FLOATING MILLIMETER-SIZED DISTRIBUTED IMPLANTABLE GASTRIC SEEDS Public/Granted day:2021-06-03
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