ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,128, issued on May 13, was assigned to Liquid Wire Inc. (Portland, Ore.).

"Multi-axis differential strain sensor" was invented by Mark William Ronay (Portland, Ore.), Trevor Antonio Rivera (Portland, Ore.), Jorge E. Carbo Jr. (Portland, Ore.) and Michael Adventure Hopkins (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible differential strain sensor, system, and method includes a deformable substrate having a first axis and a second axis different than the first axis and a first sensing element and a second sensing element. The first and second sensing elements are comprised of conductive gel. The first sensing element is arran...