US Patent Issued to Georgia Tech Research on April 14 for "Stretchable electronic materials and devices" (Georgia Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,604,653, issued on April 14, was assigned to Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Stretchable electronic materials and devices" was invented by Guoyan Zhang (Atlanta), Michael Mcbride (Atlanta), Ping-Hsun Chu (Atlanta), Elsa Reichmanis (Atlanta) and Nils Erland Persson (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices and methods relating to stretchable electronics. A stretchable electronic film includes an insulating polymer and less than 1 wt % of a semiconducting polymer. Manufacturing a multi-layered, stretchable electronic device characterized by a single peel-off step for integrating the components of the device rather than a mul...