ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,672,812, issued on July 7, was assigned to SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Bio-electrode composition, bio-electrode, and method for manufacturing the same" was invented by Jun Hatakeyama (Joetsu, Japan), Osamu Watanabe (Joetsu, Japan) and Joe Ikeda (Joetsu, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is a bio-electrode composition containing an ionic polymer material as a component (A), where the component (A) includes a polymer having: a repeating unit-a having a structure selected from the group consisting of salts of ammonium, sodium, potassium, and silver formed with any of fluorosulfonic acid, fluorosulfonimide, ...