ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,862, issued on March 11, was assigned to Alimetry Ltd. (Auckland, New Zealand).

"Electrode patch and connection system" was invented by Gregory O'Grady (Auckland, New Zealand), Armen Gharibans (Auckland, New Zealand), Peng Du (Auckland, New Zealand), Thomas Hayes (Auckland, New Zealand) and James Sebastian Hannon-Tan (North Adelaide, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode patch 100 for monitoring electrical activity generated by a subject is disclosed. The electrode patch comprises a plurality of spatially arranged electrodes 102 for contacting an outer surface of a skin of the subject to sense and measure electrical ...