US Patent Issued to Stryker on Aug. 11 for "Electrode assembly including plated emitters" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,468, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Electrode assembly including plated emitters" was invented by Sunil Udaya-Simha Moda (Portage, Mich.), Christopher Scott Brockman (Kalamazoo, Mich.) and Brett R. Merkel (Portage, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode assembly including an elongate body, a proximal emitter, and a distal emitter. A discharge port may be in fluid communication with a lumen of the elongate body. The proximal and distal emitters are formed by plating a metal an outer surface of the elongate body that is polymeric. A portion of the elongate body forms an insulative spacer ...