ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,295, issued on June 23, was assigned to Ohio State Innovation Foundation (Columbus, Ohio).

"Embedded sensors" was invented by Markus Novak (Dublin, Ohio), Lisa Militello (Columbus, Ohio) and Asimina Kiourti (Columbus, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example embedded sensor system is described herein. The example embedded sensor includes a plurality of transmission traces, a plurality of coupling traces; and a plurality of fringing field regions formed by adjacent transmission traces and coupling traces. Optionally, the embedded sensor system can include a processor operably coupled to a switch, and configured to: select a tran...