US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on Dec. 9 for "Fiber comprising micro devices and metal interconnects with controlled elasticity" (American, French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,302, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Fiber comprising micro devices and metal interconnects with controlled elasticity" was invented by Juliette Marion (Paris), Polina Olegovna Anikeeva (Lexington, Mass.) and Yoel Fink (Brookline, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An elastic and conductive fiber includes a cladding with a channel and a conductor disposed therein. The cladding may be made of a thermoplastic elastomer. The conductive fiber includes an excess length of conductor disposed inside of the channel so that the conductive fiber can stretch without applying substant...