ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,715,172, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Georgia Tech Research Corp. (Atlanta).

"Digital light processing 3D printed monolithic substrates with integrated and embedded sensors" was invented by Yuyang Song (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Masato Tanaka (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Liang Yue (Atlanta) and Hang Qi (Marietta, Ga.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor includes a grayscale digital light processing (g-DLP) 3D printed monolithic substrate with at least one microfluid channel. The monolithic substrate is formed from a resin configured to form a solid polymer using g-DL...