US Patent Issued to Medtronic on March 17 for "Intra-body electrode with a poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)-based coating" (Minnesota Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,575,775, issued on March 17, was assigned to Medtronic Inc. (Minneapolis).

"Intra-body electrode with a poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene)-based coating" was invented by Alan Shi (Plymouth, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments in accordance with the present disclosure are directed to an apparatus comprising an intra-body electrode, and a poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene) (PEDOT)-based coating. The PEDOT-based coating is on a surface of the intra-body electrode. And, the PEDOT-based coating includes a PEDOT-backbone doped with counter ions and cross-linked to a photoreactive polymer and a photoreactive-hydrophilic polymer."

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