US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Aug. 11 for "Fabrics conformally coated with conjugated polymers, disposable health monitoring sensors using the same, and fabrication method thereof" (South Korean, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,702,338, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Fabrics conformally coated with conjugated polymers, disposable health monitoring sensors using the same, and fabrication method thereof" was invented by Sunghwan Lee (West Lafayette, Ind.), Hyeonghun Kim (Icheon-si, South Korea), Michael Vincent Clevenger (English, Ind.) and Jung Joo Sohn (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable device may include a sensor. The sensor may include a flexible fabric, a conjugated polymer coating deposited on the fabric via vapor-phase oxidative chemical vapor deposition (oCVD), and a plur...