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US 2025/0281112 A1Published application
A surgical implant
OwnerVivek Ananda Sunil Ramakrishna, Bellasanty Gangadhara Prusty +2inventors
InventorsVivek Ananda Sunil Ramakrishna, Bellasanty Gangadhara Prusty, Ashish Dhar Diwan, Subhas Chandra Mukhopadhyay
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Abstract
The present disclosure is directed to a surgical implant that allows for postoperative monitoring of said implant and an associated surgical site, such as a surgically-repaired joint, and methods of using same.
Claims24
A surgical implant comprising:
- one or more sensor elements disposed in and/or on the surgical implant and adapted to measure a force exerted on the surgical implant when implanted in a subject;
- a transmitter operably coupled to the one or more sensor elements and adapted to receive a mechanical data representative of the force therefrom and transmit said mechanical data to an external receiver;
- a power supply operably coupled to the one or more sensor elements and the transmitter, the power supply adapted to harness energy wirelessly.
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A surgical implant system, the system comprising:
- (a) a surgical implant comprising:
- one or more sensor elements disposed in or on the surgical implant and adapted to measure a pressure and/or a strain exerted on the surgical implant when implanted in a subject;
- a transmitter operably coupled to the one or more sensor elements and adapted to receive pressure and/or a strain data therefrom and transmit said data to an external receiver;
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- a power supply operably coupled to the one or more sensor elements and the transmitter, the power supply adapted to receive or harvest energy wirelessly;
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- (b) a control unit comprising a receiver adapted to receive the pressure and/or a strain data from the transmitter of the surgical implant.
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A method of monitoring a surgical implant in a subject, said method including the steps of:
- (a) obtaining a mechanical data from one or more sensor elements that are disposed in or on the surgical implant and adapted to measure a force exerted thereon;
- (b) transmitting the mechanical data by a transmitter operably coupled to the one or more sensor elements and adapted to receive data therefrom to a receiver external to the surgical implant and the subject;
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- (c) powering the one or more sensor elements and the transmitter with a power supply operably coupled thereto, wherein the power supply is adapted to receive or harvest energy wirelessly.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.