ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,364,434, issued on July 22, was assigned to CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY (Cleveland) and THE UNITED STATES AS REPRESENTED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS (Washington).

"Method for generating one or more strain measurements associated with a biological surface" was invented by Steve Ja Majerus (University Heights, Ohio), Jeremy Dunning (Cleveland Heights, Ohio), Katherine M. Bogie (Cleveland) and Joseph A Potkay (Plymouth, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor apparatus includes at least one substrate layer of an elastically deformable material, the substrate layer extending longitudinally between spaced apart ends thereo...