ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,602, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Analog Devices Inc. (Wilmington, Mass.).

"Reference electrode, system and method of manufacture" was invented by Mohamed Azize (Medford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a reference electrode for providing a reference potential during measurement of a property of a sample. The reference electrode comprising: a reference electrode layer; and a reference layer provided over at least a part of the reference electrode layer and defining a sample receiving region which is separated from the reference electrode layer by the reference layer. In one embodiment, the...