ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,358,260, issued on July 15, was assigned to Liquid Wire Inc. (Portland, Ore.).

"Functional materials between deformable bonded layers" was invented by Mark Ronay (Portland, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A deformable assembly may include a first structural layer, a first bonding layer bonded to the structural layer, and a pattern of functional material entrapped between the first structural layer and first the bonding layer. The functional material has a viscous characteristic, an elastic characteristic and/or a viscoelastic characteristic. The assembly may further include a second structural layer bonded to the first bonding layer....