US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Feb. 24 for "Devices and methods directed to sensing using synthetic materials" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,800, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Devices and methods directed to sensing using synthetic materials" was invented by Jooyeun Ham (San Francisco), Zhenan Bao (Stanford, Calif.) and Mark R. Cutkosky (Palo Alto, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Certain examples are directed to an apparatus having a stretchable synthetic membrane material and series of patterned conductive or semiconductive sections. The stretchable synthetic membrane material may be provided with the series of patterned sections being integrated in or against the material (e.g...