US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Jan. 27 for "Flexible piezoelectric composite films, flexible piezoelectric impact sensors, pedestrian protection systems, and related methods" (Indiana, Delaware, Utah, Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,534,043, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Flexible piezoelectric composite films, flexible piezoelectric impact sensors, pedestrian protection systems, and related methods" was invented by Mukerrem Cakmak (Lafayette, Ind.), Armen Yildirim (Newark, Del.), Jesse Grant (West Valley City, Utah), Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam (Canton, Mich.) and Nagarpita Vidyanag (West Lafayette, Ind.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Flexible piezoelectric composite films, flexible piezoelectric impact sensors, pedestrian protection systems, and related methods. Such a flexible piezoelectric composite film include...