ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,420, issued on July 29, was assigned to ORPYX MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Calgary, Canada).

"High-resistance sensor and method for using same" was invented by David Allan Viberg (Calgary, Canada), Travis Michael Stevens (Calgary, Canada) and Michael Todd Purdy (Calgary, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-resistance sensor. The sensor includes a first low-resistance material and a second low-resistance material, each connected with a base material. The first low-resistance material and the second low-resistance material are separated by a gap. A stimulus causes the first low-resistance material and the second low-resistance t...