ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,708,305, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg (Freiburg, Germany).

"Flexible implantable electrode arrangement and production method" was invented by Thomas Stieglitz (Freiburg, Germany), Calogero Gueli (Freiburg, Germany), Maria Vomero (Freiburg, Germany) and Swati Sharma (Karlsruhe, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible implantable electrode arrangement includes an electrically insulating carrier structure of a first polymer material, an electrically conductive layer, and an electrically insulating cover layer of a second polymer material. The electrically conductive layer includes an elect...