ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,350,053, issued on July 8, was assigned to NITTO DENKO Corp. (Ibaraki, Japan).
"Electrode and biosensor" was invented by Masayuki Minakata (Ibaraki, Japan) and Ryoma Yoshioka (Ibaraki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode according to the present invention contains a conductive polymer; a binder resin; and a plasticizing agent, wherein the electrode has a plate shape having a pair of principal surfaces parallel to each other, and wherein a ratio of a content of the plasticizing agent to a content of the conductive polymer being 0.5 to 500.0 in a surface part of the electrode located at less than or equal to 1 micro metre from...