ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,270, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to UNIVERSITEIT GENT (Ghent, Belgium) and IMEC VZW (Leuven, Belgium).
"Sensing diaper content" was invented by Patrick Van Torre (Lievegem, Belgium) and Arno Moerman (Deinze, Belgium).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for sensing diaper content includes a diaper, an outer coupling layer and a sensing circuitry. The diaper has a circuitry layer having inner input capacitor plates, tracks arranged to provide a resistive coupling between the inner capacitor plates dependent on the content, and inner output capacitor plates in galvanic contact with the respective inner input capacitor plates. The...