ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,186, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Aarhus Universitet (Aarhus C, Denmark).

"High impedance and compact neural sensor front-end" was invented by Milad Zamani (Risskov, Denmark), Amin Rashidi (ZG Delft, Netherlands) and Farshad Moradi (Risskov, Denmark).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A front-end device is arranged to amplify an electric signal from an associated sensor, e.g. for amplifying an electric signal from a neural activity sensor. The front-end device has an amplifier circuit connected between its input and output terminals (Vin, Vout), wherein the amplifier circuit comprises a capacitive-coupled chopper circuit comprising ...