ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,766,324, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Multi-hundred or thousand channel electrode electrophysiological array and fabrication method" was invented by Shadi A. Dayeh (San Diego), Youngbin Tchoe (San Diego) and Andrew M. Bourhis (La Jolla, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible electrode array with hundreds or thousands channels for clinical use includes an array of at least hundreds of electrodes on a flexible biocompatible polymer substrate. Perfusion through holes are provided through the substrate. Individual elongate leads connect to each of the electrodes,...