ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,588,109, issued on March 24, was assigned to Liquid Wire Inc. (Portland, Ore.).

"Flexible high-power electronics bus" was invented by Jesse Michael Martinez (Milwaukie, Ore.) and Michael Adventure Hopkins (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Devices, systems, and methods include a conductive textile (106) comprising a plurality of conductive strands and a flexible bus (102). The flexible bus (102) includes a conductive gel (104) electrically coupled to the conductive strands and an encapsulant (108) bonded to the conductive textile (106) and configured to contain the conductive gel (104) in contact with the conductive strands....