ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,439, issued on July 21, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Scalable and high-performance pressure sensors for wearable electronics" was invented by Ana Claudia Arias (Lafayette, Calif.), Xiaodong Wu (Berkeley, Calif.), Yasser T. Khan (Albany, Calif.), Jonathan KangYu Ting (Berkeley, Calif.) and Natasha Ariane Diniz Yamamoto (Berkeley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Flexible pressure sensors and wearable devices incorporating one or more flexible pressure sensors, and methods of making the same. A flexible pressure sensor includes a first layer including a plurality of pressure-sensi...