ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,537, issued on June 23, was assigned to Liquid Wire Inc. (Portland, Ore.).
"Flexible and stretchable structures" was invented by Trevor Antonio Rivera (Portland, Ore.), Michael Adventure Hopkins (Portland, Ore.) and Mark William Ronay (Portland, Ore.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods include a substrate layer, a metal layer coupled to the substrate layer, an encapsulant coupled to the substrate layer and the metal layer, and a stencil-in-place structure. The encapsulant is configured to electrically isolate the metal layer from environmental conditions. The stencil-in-place structure includes a stencil subs...