Recent Patents on Biomedical Engineering (Discontinued) - Volume 3, Issue 1, 2010

The advent of the biotechnology industry as well as the continued usage of enzymes in the bioprocess industries have resulted in increased demand for the creation of proteins with enhanced properties as well as the desire to create proteins of novel functionalities. Protein engineering is the field that is concerned with achieving such goals. Over the course of the last decade protein engineering efforts have come to incre Read More

Class II malocclusion is considered as the most frequent treatment problem in orthodontics. Maxillary molar distalization is usually applied to correct this type of malocclusion, however with some drawbacks. The present article presents a patented (German patent No. 10 2006 033 774; U.S. patent application No. 11/822,799 pending) miniscrew implant supported “Advanced Molar Distalization Appliance” (AMDA) which w Read More

Portable biomedical devices for health care management are producing a great impact in the monitoring of patients located in areas different from clinical environments such as houses, military bases, ships, and the like. A number of applications, ranging from data collection, to chronic patient surveillance, and even to the control of therapeutic procedures, are being implemented in many parts of the world. The development of Read More

In recent years polymer science has been developed enormously. Researchers have made some significant discoveries and advancements in this field. All these things have lead to a new era of polymer science especially biodegradable polymers. Today a number of biopolymers are known and used for different purposes in biomedical applications. Biodegradable polymers have played a significant role in therapeutics and drug d Read More

The operational complexity and extremely high cost in a conventional biomedical imaging device usually prevent patients from monitoring their health conditions or obtaining primary diagnosis themselves via a cheap and flexible way. The increasing demand for convenient medicine at low cost has significantly stimulated the innovations in extending the capabilities of a mobile phone as a basic tool in biomedical imaging are Read More

This paper presents and discusses a number of significant seminal patents on implantable heart-assist and compression devises. It further discusses active, electrically controllable and implantable heart compression/assist systems equipped with ionic polymeric artificial muscles. A brief description of the characteristics and modeling of ionic polymer metal composites (IPMCs) as artificial muscles is also included in this pa Read More

The patents annotated in this section have been selected from various patent databases. These recent patents are relevant to the articles published in this journal issue, categorized by medical imaging, bioinformatics, image processing, biomaterials, pharmaceutical drugs, bioengineering, medical devices, design, biological devices, biomechanics & diagnostic devices related to biomedical engineering.