ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,642,451, issued on June 2, was assigned to SENDANCE GMBH (Linz, Austria).
"Sensor network" was invented by Robert Koeppe (Linz, Austria).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A network including sensor points that form the node points of the network and elongated connecting elements that form the edges of the network, wherein the connecting elements each have an extensible substrate on which there is at least one conductor that runs from one end region of the connecting element in the longitudinal direction thereof to a second end region of the connecting element. The conductor consists of a non-extensible material and the conductor has a sinuous...