US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California, MAKANI SCIENCE on July 21 for "Prestrain adhesive for external respiratory measurement sensors" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,685,458, issued on July 21, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.) and MAKANI SCIENCE INC. (Irvine, Calif.).

"Prestrain adhesive for external respiratory measurement sensors" was invented by Michael Chu (Irvine, Calif.), William E. Saltzstein (Irvine, Calif.) and Michelle Khine (Irvine, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention is directed to the standardization of prestrain applied to a sensor of an external respiratory measurement device. The method may comprise sandwiching the sensor between two adhesive layers and stretching the sensor by a fixed amount in order to match the le...