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Spinoff story
NASA Invention Goes Straight to the Heart
A real-world story of NASA technology finding a life beyond the mission.
About this technology
Overview
Two engineers at Glenn Research Center developed a tiny, implantable transmitter and handheld reader. Endotronix of Naperville, Illinois, now part of Edwards Lifesciences, licensed the patent and used it to develop a heart monitor that warns heart failure patients of an impending crisis.