US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on March 11 for "Three-dimensional machine knitting of electronic textile for activity recognition and biomechanical monitoring" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,332, issued on March 11, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Three-dimensional machine knitting of electronic textile for activity recognition and biomechanical monitoring" was invented by Joseph A. Paradiso (Medford, Mass.) and Irmandy Wicaksono (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are systems and techniques for seamless and scalable piezoresistive matrix-based intelligent textile development using digital flat-bed and circular knitting machines. Disclosed embodiments allow for combining and customizing functional conductive and polyester and spandex yarns, thus allowing for...