US Patent Issued to The Florida State University Research Foundation on April 22 for "Negative Poisson ratio piezoresistive sensor and method of manufacture" (Florida Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,948, issued on April 22, was assigned to The Florida State University Research Foundation Inc. (Tallahassee, Fla.).

"Negative Poisson ratio piezoresistive sensor and method of manufacture" was invented by Changchun Zeng (Tallahassee, Fla.), Zhiyong Liang (Tallahassee, Fla.), Yan Li (Tallahassee, Fla.), Sida Luo (Tallahassee, Fla.) and Tao Liu (Tallahassee, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention includes scalable and cost-effective auxetic foam sensors (AFS) created through conformably coating a thin conductive nanomaterial-sensing layer on a porous substrate having a negative Poisson's ratio. In general, the auxetic...