ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,106, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh).
"Microscale flexible strain sensor" was invented by Jay Reddy (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are devices comprising stretchable interdigitated electrode arrays and methods for fabricating the devices. The devices are capable of acting as elongation sensors by sensing a change in the capacitance of the device as the distance between the interdigitated fingers changes when the device is elongated or compressed. The device may be coupled to other devices such as to be able to sense elongation or compression of the coupled device...