ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,751,658, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Skin-preparation-free, stretchable microneedle adhesive patches for highly reliable electrophysiological monitoring" was invented by Jae-Woong Jeong (Daejeon, South Korea) and Heesoo Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a stretchable microneedle adhesive patch (SNAP) capable of performing high-quality electrophysiological (EP) signal measurement without skin preparation, such as exfoliating the skin or removing sweat, a SNAP system, and an operating method thereof. The disclosed SNAP capa...