Patent ID: 8897888

Claim:
A method for manufacturing a knitted implantable electrode assembly comprising: providing at least one biocompatible implantable, electrically non-conductive filament, and at least one biocompatible implantable, electrically conductive filament; winding first and second ends of a first of the at least one conductive filament around spaced sections of the at least one non-conductive filament; and knitting the at least one non-conductive filament having the conductive filament wound there around into an intermeshed looped structure having substantially adjacent parallel rows, each row stitched to an adjacent row with one or more loops, and the first end of the first of the at least one conductive filament intertwined with a first row of the at least one non-conductive filament to form a connector contact, and a second end of the first of the at least one conductive filament intertwined with a second row of the at least one non-conductive filament to form an electrode, wherein the first and second rows are spaced from one another and the connector contact and the electrode are spaced from one another by one or more third rows of the at least one non-conductive filament between the connecting contact and electrode.