ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,370,889, issued on July 29.

"Sensor array system for a motorized board" was invented by Gregory L. Hilton (New York).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of replacing a worn foot sensor array on a motorized board with a new sensor array. The new sensor array has a laminate structure with multiple sensor fields. An open area is disposed in the laminate structure along a midline. A central slot and diagonal slots extend from the first edge to the open area. Parallel slots extend from the diagonal slots. The slots separate multiple sensor fields. The multiple sensor fields are only interconnected by narrow lead fields. This ena...