ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,245,369, issued on March 4, was assigned to University of Oregon (Eugene, Ore.).

"Methods and systems for fabricating 3D multielectrode arrays with 3D printed electrodes" was invented by Timothy Gardner (Eugene, Ore.), Kara Zappitelli (Oakland, Calif.) and Morgan Brown (Eugene, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems for fabricating 3D electronic devices, such as multielectrode arrays, including metalized, 3D printed structures using integrated 3D printing and photolithography techniques are disclosed. As one embodiment, a multielectrode array comprises a flexible substrate, a plurality of photopatterned electrical traces...