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1 April 2008
Textronics has been awarded patent 7,308,294 B2 for its textile-based electrode system by the US Patent and Trademark Office. The patent is for stretchy textile electrodes that can be incorporated into wearable garments to comfortably monitor the wearer's heart rate, ECG or other electrical activity of the body.