US Patent Issued to HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on March 18 for "Flexible piezoelectric sensor based on 4D printing" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,878, issued on March 18, was assigned to HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Hubei, China).

"Flexible piezoelectric sensor based on 4D printing" was invented by Chunze Yan (Hubei, China), Hongzhi Wu (Hubei, China), Bin Su (Hubei, China) and Yusheng Shi (Hubei, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure belongs to the technical field of additive manufacturing, and discloses a flexible piezoelectric sensor based on 4D printing. The sensor includes a magnetic part and a conductive part, wherein: the conductive part includes two substrates disposed opposite to each other and a spiral structure disposed between the tw...