US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of Michigan on Aug. 11 for "Conformable thin film-based strain sensing with flexible substrate" (Michigan, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,421, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to The Regents of the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

"Conformable thin film-based strain sensing with flexible substrate" was invented by Jerome P. Lynch (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Peng Sun (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Andrew Robert Burton (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A strain sensor includes a flexible substrate and a circuit disposed on the flexible substrate. The circuit includes an inductance to receive an excitation signal, the circuit being configured to generate a radio frequency response to the excitation signal via the inductance. The circuit includes an elongated trace coupled...