US Patent Issued to Nitto Bend Technologies on May 6 for "Systems and methods for foldable multi-mode bend sensors" (Utah, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,343, issued on May 6, was assigned to Nitto Bend Technologies Inc. (Farmington, Utah).

"Systems and methods for foldable multi-mode bend sensors" was invented by Colton A. Ottley (Farmington, Utah), Jared K. Jonas (Seattle), Colin D. Eichinger (Salt Lake City), Nathan Grimes (Bountiful, Utah) and Nathan C. Briggs (Ogden, Utah).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for additively manufacturing (e.g., by "printing" or the like) a bend sensor as a 2D structure that can then be configured into a 3D or stacked structure. Further disclosed embodiments include bend sensors with foldable sensing regi...