US Patent Issued to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY on Sept. 29 for "Sensor for multifunctional sensing" (Michigan, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,748,000, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland).

"Sensor for multifunctional sensing" was invented by Changyong Cao (Okemos, Mich.) and Yaokun Pang (Cleveland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A textile-based sensor includes a textile triboelectric nanogenerator sensor attached to and overlying a textile piezoresistive sensor, wherein the textile triboelectric nanogenerator sensor is configured to generate an electrical signal indicative of object contact force and/or frequency with the textile triboelectric nanogenerator sensor, object material, and object surface morphology or texture, and the tex...