ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,502,134, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY (Evanston, Ill.) and THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (Washington).

"Multimodal, multilayered soft electronics in advanced devices and applications of same" was invented by John A. Rogers (Wilmette, Ill.), Roozbeh Ghaffari (Cambridge, Mass.), Igor Efimov (Arlington, Va.) and Mengdi Han (Evanston, Ill.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic system for multimodal diagnostic measurements and therapeutic interventions includes a plurality of element network layers vertically stacked one with another on a flexible substrate, each element network layer being bi-axially s...