US Patent Issued to Universitat Basel Vizerektorat Forschung on Feb. 10 for "Neural implant based on a cellulose thin film and corresponding fabrication process" (Swiss, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,544,565, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Universitat Basel Vizerektorat Forschung (Basel, Switzerland).

"Neural implant based on a cellulose thin film and corresponding fabrication process" was invented by Bekim Osmani (Basel, Switzerland), Tino Topper (Freiburg, Germany), Bert Muller (Embrach, Switzerland), Carina Luchsinger Salinas (Battwil, Switzerland), Raphael Guzman (Allschwil, Switzerland), Alois Hopf (Basel, Switzerland) and Mahyar Joodaki (Basel, Switzerland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A novel ultra-thin neural implant (1) is provided that is based on a cellulose thin film (4) featuring an array (2) of electrodes (3). Due ...