US Patent Issued to Roche Diabetes Care on March 31 for "Method for the preparation of a working electrode" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,836, issued on March 31, was assigned to Roche Diabetes Care Inc. (Indianapolis).

"Method for the preparation of a working electrode" was invented by Gernot Hochmuth (Mannheim, Germany), Kirill Sliozberg (Mannheim, Germany) and Alexander Steck (Hirschberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of preparing a working electrode on a sensor substrate is disclosed. A sensor substrate is provided and has a first side with at least one conductive trace. A layer of sensing material is applied onto the first side and covers at least a portion of the at least one conductive trace. The sensing material is irradiated with a laser bea...