ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,446,815, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to NOK Corp. (Tokyo).
"Biological electrode" was invented by Masayuki Kubo (Kanagawa, Japan) and Ryo Futashima (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A biological electrode that includes an electrode member made of a conductive rubber having a plurality of electrode portions in contact with a body of a subject. The plurality of electrode portions are protrusively formed on an electrode portion forming surface of the electrode member and arranged circularly or concentrically on the electrode portion forming surface. Further, each of the plurality of electrode portions is formed so that a c...