ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,336,100, issued on June 17, was assigned to FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA (Genoa, Italy).
"Flexible printed circuit sensor" was invented by Simeon Asher Bamford (Castenuovo Berardenga, Italy), Ella Janotte (Genoa, Italy) and Chiara Bartolozzi (Genoa, Italy).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible printed circuit flex-PCB sensor includes a sheet of electronically printable flexible material, sensor cells printed on said sheet and each including a sensitive element and a circuit. Each sensitive element is arranged to measure a predetermined physical parameter and to obtain an associated measurement signal. Each circuit is arr...