ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,655,331, issued on June 16, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Duesseldorf, Germany).

"Dry electrode adhesive" was invented by Carla Negele (Neuss, Germany), Inge van der Meulen (Eersel, Netherlands), Stijn Gillissen (Hasselt, Belgium), Tobias Roschek (Solingen, Germany), Frank Goethel (Chemnitz, Germany), Alissa Besler (Duesseldorf, Germany) and Anja Schneider (Duesseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to an ionically conductive pressure sensitive adhesive composition useful as an electrode adhesive, which is an ionically conductive (meth)acrylate based pressure sensitive adhesive allowing prol...