ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,016, issued on April 7, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Conductive electrode" was invented by Yu-Te Wang (Redmond, Wash.) and Ivan Jelev Tashev (Kirkland, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The description relates to self-dispensing electrodes. One example can include a curved hollow tube configured to hold a flowable conductive material and a selective retention mechanism positioned on the curved hollow tube and configured to retain the flowable conductive material in the hollow tube unless a force is imparted on the curved hollow tube."
The patent was filed on Feb. 10, 2023, under Applicatio...