ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,241, issued on May 20, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong).

"Flexible patterned piezoceramic composite and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Zhengbao Yang (Hong Kong) and Ying Hong (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a surface tension assisted film forming method to prepare a flexible, patterned piezoceramic composite for use in a variety of electronics. The present method allows tuning mechanical and piezoelectric properties of the resulting composite by simply adjusting one or few parameters used during the piezoceramic film forming and/or composite forming proce...