US Patent Issued to Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia on Dec. 16 for "Flexible piezoelectric sensor with integrated electromagnetic shield" (Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,501,833, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Fondazione Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (Genoa, Italy).

"Flexible piezoelectric sensor with integrated electromagnetic shield" was invented by Lara Natta (Galatina, Italy), Prospero Lombardi (Milan), Vincenzo Mastronardi (Lequile, Italy), Francesco Guido (Lecce, Italy), Antonio Qualtieri (Nardo', Italy), Marco Di Rienzo (Milan) and Massimo De Vittorio (Lecce, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible sensor is provided which has a flexible substrate of polymeric material, a bottom electrode layer arranged on the flexible substrate and configured to be a reference electrode, an active l...