ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,472,359, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to NTT Inc. (Tokyo).
"Biological electrode and cardiac pacemaker" was invented by Shingo Tsukada (Musashino, Japan), Tetsuhiko Teshima (Musashino, Japan) and Hiroshi Nakashima (Musashino, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present biological electrode includes a conductive fabric (2) formed of base fibers which are filled with a conductor and/or to which the conductor is adhered, a thin metallic wire (3) formed into a spiral shape and connected with the conductive fabric (2) at a distal end of the thin metallic wire, and a filling material (5) with which a gap between the conductive fabric (...