ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,433,509, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to CHRONOLIFE (Paris).
"Elongation sensor and wearable article including the elongation sensor" was invented by Pascal Dumas (Versailles, France), Guillaume Chenegros (Bassou, France) and Stephane Carras (Conde-sur-Noireau, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elongation sensor, which includes an elastic, electrically insulating core, and at least two resistive elements arranged helically around the elastic core in opposite directions and in contact with each other. A wearable article including a flexible support, at least one elongation sensor arranged on the flexible support so as to have a le...