ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,745,960, issued on Sept. 29.

"Flexible sensor apparatus and method of making same" was invented by Steve Ja Majerus (University Heights, Ohio), Jeremy Dunning (Cleveland Heights, Ohio), Katherine M. Bogie (Cleveland) and Joseph A Potkay (Plymouth, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor apparatus includes at least one substrate layer of an elastically deformable material, the substrate layer extending longitudinally between spaced apart ends thereof. A conductive layer is attached to and extends longitudinally between the spaced apart ends of the at least one substrate layer. The conductive layer includes an electrically conductiv...