ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,551,696, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Stryker Corp. (Portage, Mich.).

"Electrodes with usability indicator" was invented by Adithya Chandrashekharan (Portage, Mich.), Aaron Furman (Kalamazoo, Mich.), Scott Batzer (Plainwell, Mich.) and Michael Baran (Kalamazoo, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrodes having a usability indicator to indicate a usability of the electrodes are described. The electrodes include a first electrode and a second electrode, as well as an output device(s) that are configured to output a usability indication indicative of a usability of the set of electrodes. If the usability indication indicates that...