US Patent Issued to SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY on May 20 for "Microcrack-based strain sensing element, preparation method and use thereof" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,305,978, issued on May 20, was assigned to SOOCHOW UNIVERSITY (Suzhou, China).

"Microcrack-based strain sensing element, preparation method and use thereof" was invented by Qian Wang (Suzhou, China), Zezhong Lu (Suzhou, China), Kejun Wang (Suzhou, China), Lei Gao (Suzhou, China), Cheng Fan (Suzhou, China) and Lei Zhang (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention discloses a microcrack-based strain sensing element and a preparation method and use thereof. The microcrack-based strain sensing element includes a substrate layer, a metal film, a protective layer, an output electrode, and a packaging layer. The metal film is ar...