US Patent Issued to 3Brain on June 17 for "Probe arrays" (Swiss, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,329,528, issued on June 17, was assigned to 3Brain AG (Pfaffikon, Switzerland).

"Probe arrays" was invented by Kilian Imfeld (Wadenswil, Switzerland), Mauro Gandolfo (Zurich) and Alessandro Maccione (Genoa, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A microelectrode array comprises electrodes array. Each electrode is associated with a sampling circuit for sampling an electrode signal on the electrode, a sample buffer to store a representation of the electrode signal from the electrode, and activity sensor configured to detect an electrode signal event above a predetermined threshold and to set an activity flag based on the detection. The micro...