London, Ontario-based Deep Breathe Inc. filed for protection of a wearable ultrasound sensor that is used to obtain ultrasound data, and digital ultrasound images are processed using a machine learning model to predict the probability of lung sliding and detection of pneumothorax (collapsed lung) if lung sliding is absent or deem it likely if lung sliding is present.

Researchers from the University of Chicago and Northwestern University have filed for protection of an mobile application to track individualized patient needs, engagement in continuous positive airway pressure machine use, and the correlation of risk behaviors to determine sleep apnea treatment progress.

A collaborating team of researchers from Northwestern University and Rice University continue to build intellectual property for an implanted biohybrid (bioelectronic/engineered cell) device that has been likened to an implantable pharmacy on a chip that never runs out.

Researchers from The Cleveland Clinic Foundation continue to build intellectual property to protect their invention of a portable device for regulating the flow of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) from a patient.

News comes from the U.K. Intellectual Property Office at the beginning of May 2024, where Ethicon, a Johnson & Johnson MedTech company, applied for five additional years patent protection for its Ethizia hemostatic sealing patch, whose embedded Pox polymer system dehydrates blood and accelerates the coagulation cascade to in occur in seconds, forming a tight yet flexible seal that maintains a barrier to bleeding.

A little over two months after the granting of its very first patent which described computer-based systems for diagnosing psoriasis, Belletorus Corp. welcomed the publication of two continuation-in-part child filings on similar such systems for the diagnosis of eczema and determining the severity of skin diseases such as psoriasis, eczema and skin cancer.

Researchers affiliated with the U.K.’s University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust filed for protection of a device for treating simple or complex anal or rectovaginal fistulas which is less invasive and more effective than existing treatments. The device combines a bioresorbable scaffold to heal the fistula and a thin comfortable seton to achieve drainage.

In what represents the first PCT filing to be published in the name of Bayreuth, Germany-headquartered Incontalert GmbH, the company’s co-founders seek protection for a wearable device which employs machine learning techniques to non-invasively predict the bladder filling level for incontinence patients.

Wubin Bai, assistant professor of applied physical sciences at UNC-Chapel Hill, is seeking protection for morphable 3D-folded microelectronic mesostructures, including epicardial bioelectronic probes, made using concepts borrowed from origami.

A pair of co-published filings from Naples, Fla.-based Aerwave Medical Inc. describe apparatus and ultrasound-based methods for bronchial denervation, ablating smooth muscle or goblet cells, and emphysematous tissue remodeling in the treatment of respiratory conditions such as asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.