ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,324,911, issued on June 10, was assigned to NEUROLOOP GMBH (Freiburg, Germany).

"Implantable electrical contact arrangement" was invented by Fabian Kimmig (Teningen, Germany) and Tim Boretius (Freiburg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An implantable electrical contact arrangement comprising at least one electrode element entirely integrated into a carrier substrate of a biocompatible, electrically insulating material, and at least one freely accessible electrode surface enclosed by the biocompatible, electrically insulating carrier substrate. Within at least one space of the carrier substrate, which does not contain an electrode e...