ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,733,858, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Bio-electrode composition, bio-electrode, and method for manufacturing bio-electrode" was invented by Jun Hatakeyama (Joetsu, Japan), Takayuki Nagasawa (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 electro-conductive polymer composite including (A) a Pi-conjugated polymer and (B) a dopant polymer containing a repeating unit-a1 having a hydroxy group and/or a carboxy group and a repeating unit-a2 having a sulfonic acid, fluorosulfonimide, and N-carbonyl-fluoro...