ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,576, issued on July 14, was assigned to Meta Platforms Technologies LLC (Menlo Park, Calif.).

"Wearable material designed to maintain characteristic impedance levels within desired range, and systems and methods of use thereof" was invented by Adam Swett (Seattle), Michael Tawfik Khbeis (Federal Way, Wash.) and Filipp Demenschonok (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable material is described. The wearable material includes a stretchable material including a biopotential-signal-sensing component for sensing a biopotential signal from a portion of a wearer's body on which the wearable material is being worn. The stret...