ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,584,261, issued on March 24, was assigned to Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Duesseldorf, Germany).

"Device for activating a mediator species" was invented by Boray Torun (Duesseldorf, Germany), Peter Schmiedel (Duesseldorf, Germany), Robert Ciupka (Langenfeld, Germany), Sandra Treu (Duesseldorf, Germany), Isabel Kinscheck (Haan, Germany) and Komalshree Muthukrishnan (Duesseldorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a device for activating a mediator species by way of electrolysis, including a voltage source and an anode connected to the voltage source and a cathode connected to the voltage source, the anode being encl...