ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,439,762, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to SEOUL NATIONAL UNIVERSITY R&DB FOUNDATION (South Korea).

"Stretchable organic optoelectronic sensorimotor synapse" was invented by Tae-Woo Lee (Seoul, South Korea) and Yeong Jun Lee (Chungcheongbuk-do, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed within is a stretchable organic optoelectronic sensorimotor synapse including: a photodetector triggered by optical signals to generate voltage pulses; and a stretchable organic nanowire synaptic transistor (s-ONWST) driven by the voltage pulses to generate resultant informative synaptic outputs."

The patent was filed on Nov. 21, 2020, under App...