US Patent Issued to Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, for and on behalf of the University of Alabama in Huntsville on June 2 for "Wearable triboelectric sensors for monitoring bodily motions" (Alabama Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,454, issued on June 2, was assigned to Board of Trustees of the University of Alabama, for and on behalf of the University of Alabama in Huntsville (Huntsville, Ala.).

"Wearable triboelectric sensors for monitoring bodily motions" was invented by Gang Wang (Madison, Ala.) and Moonhyung Jang (Madison, Ala.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable triboelectric sensor has a first layer with surface charges at the same polarity and a second layer with both positive and negative surface charges. The two layers are held together by electrostatic forces generated by surface charges of opposite polarity. Electrostatic forces generated by su...