US Patent Issued to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, Fraunhofer USA on Feb. 25 for "Implantable all diamond microelectrode and fabrication method" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,212, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Board of Trustees of Michigan State University (East Lansing, Mich.) and Fraunhofer USA (East Lansing, Mich.).

"Implantable all diamond microelectrode and fabrication method" was invented by Wen Li (Okemos, Mich.), Yue Guo (Lansing, Mich.), Thomas Schuelke (Pinckney, Mich.), Michael Becker (East Lansing, Mich.), Robert Rechenberg (Vermontville, Mich.) and Cory Rusinek (Okemos, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode is provided. The electrode includes a contact pad composed of boron-doped polycrystalline diamond (BDD); a fiber core composed of BDD extending longitudinally from the con...