Implantable medical devices, including stents, grafts, covered stents,
catheters, patches or the like having regions of the device which are
functionalized employing microelectromechanical systems that are capable
of acting as electromechanical sensors or biosensors in response to
either an endogenous event, such as tissue growth, biochemical binding
events, pressure changes, or respond to an externally applied stimulus,
such as RF energy, to cause a change in the state of the device, such as
to induce an oscillation signal which may be interrogated and interpreted
external the body or may generate an induced electrical or
electromagnetic potential in the device to activate micromotors to effect
a geometric change in the device.