ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,507,932, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Stichting IMEC Nederland (AE Eindhoven, Netherlands).

"Electrode for potential acquisition of a surface and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Jiawei Xu (Eindhoven, Netherlands) and Vojkan Mihajlovic (Eindhoven, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrode (10) for potential acquisition of a surface is provided. The electrode (10) comprises at least two pins (11a, 11b, 21) for contacting the surface, and a local signal processing unit (12) connected to at least one (11a, 11b) of the pins (11a, 11b, 21). The local signal processing unit (12) is configured to perform signal ...