ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,083, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Neuralink Corp. (San Francisco).

"Electrode fabrication and design" was invented by Vanessa M. Tolosa (Emeryville, Calif.), Zachary M. Tedoff (Oakland, Calif.), Timothy L. Hanson (San Francisco), Timothy J. Gardner (San Francisco), Camilo A Diaz-Botia (Emeryville, Calif.) and Supin Chen (San Ramon, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are biocompatible multi-electrode devices capable of being implanted in sensitive tissue, such as the brain, and methods for fabricating such arrays. The disclosed arrays can be implanted in living biological tissue with a single needle insertion. The dev...