ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,331,432, issued on June 17, was assigned to CHRONOLIFE (Paris).
"Electrically conductive yarn and wearable article including such yarn" was invented by Pascal Dumas (Versailles, France) and Stephane Carras (Conde-sur-Noireau, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Electrically conductive yarn, which includes an assembly of at least two resistive elements and a wrapping layer covering the assembly of the two resistive elements. Each resistive element includes an elastic core coated with metal. Also, a wearable article including a flexible support, at least one sensor for measuring a physiological parameter of the wearer of the wearable art...