ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,674,774, issued on July 7, was assigned to Oxford University Innovation Ltd. (Oxford, Great Britain).
"Reference electrode" was invented by Richard Guy Compton (Oxford, Great Britain) and Lifu Chen (Oxford, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides for a coated, substrate for use as an electrode, the coated substrate comprising a substrate that is at least partially coated with a layer comprising a polymer and a redox active substance, wherein the polymer is a cation exchange polymer, and wherein the redox active substance is present in both an oxidised and reduced state. A method for making the isolated...