ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,419,561, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Bio-electrode composition, bio-electrode, and method for manufacturing bio-electrode" was invented by Jun Hatakeyama (Joetsu, Japan), Osamu Watanabe (Joetsu, Japan), Joe Ikeda (Joetsu, Japan), Shiori Nonaka (Joetsu, Japan), Koji Hasegawa (Joetsu, Japan), Motoaki Iwabuchi (Joetsu, Japan) and Yasuyoshi Kuroda (Annaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A bio-electrode composition contains (A) an ionic polymer material, (B) an addition reaction-curable silicone having at least a hydrosilyl group, (C) a platinum-group catalyst, and a solvent. The bio-electr...