ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,778,476, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Bioserenity Medical Devices Group (Paris).

"Expandable electrode set" was invented by Nadia Arfaoui (Chatou, France), Alexandre Aristides (Paris), Marc Frouin (Paris), Philippe Guermonprez (Paris), Ekin Koca (Paris), Maylis Merchet (Paris), Fabian Parizel (Paris) and Pierre Prot (Paris).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An expandable electrode set, methods of using the expanding electrode set, electrode set systems, and methods of manufacturing an electrode set. Various examples of an electrode set include nodes that are physically connected to each other by connectors that have a shape that allows f...