US Patent Issued to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, Carnegie Mellon University on March 17 for "Conformable neural interface device with hydrogel adhesion and methods of using the same" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,576,268, issued on March 17, was assigned to University of Pittsburgh-Of the Commonwealth System of Higher Education (Pittsburgh) and Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh).

"Conformable neural interface device with hydrogel adhesion and methods of using the same" was invented by Charles C. Horn (Pittsburgh), Gutian Xiao (Pittsburgh), Christopher J. Bettinger (Pittsburgh), Gary Keith Fedder (Pittsburgh), Xiao Chuan Ong (Pittsburgh), Wei-Chen Huang (Pittsburgh), Lee Erik Bartholomew Fisher (Pittsburgh) and Robert A. Gaunt (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are highly compliant bioelectronic neural interface devices wit...