ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,635,946, issued on May 26, was assigned to Bionime Corp. (Taichung City, Taiwan).

"Patch and method for using a patch" was invented by Chun-Mu Huang (Taichung City, Taiwan), Chieh-Hsing Chen (Taichung City, Taiwan) and Shiang-Yu Wu (Taichung City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A patch for increasing an adhesive strength of a physiological parameter detection device on a skin surface includes a backing and a peelable sheet. The backing is disposed with an adhesive layer having an adhesive surface. The adhesive surface includes a central adhesive portion and an outer adhesive portion, and, upon the central adhesive portion is expose...