This week, the US patent office issued 6,609 patents. Each patent adds a little something new to the human knowledge base. As we cannot list all six thousand, the PatentYogi team has selected the five most interesting patents. Contact lens with Wi-Fi based drug delivery Patent number: US 20160223842 Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital have invented a contact lens that can be controlled through Wi-Fi to deliver calculated quantities of drugs. While Google’s smart contact lens can sense glucose levels, this remotely controllable contact lens takes the next step of delivering a diabetic drug directly through the eyes. But before…
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