ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,010, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY COURT OF THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and HERIOT-WATT UNIVERSITY (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

"Flexible devices incorporating electronically-conductive layers, including flexible wireless LC sensors" was invented by Philip James Walton Hands (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Vasileios Mitrakos (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Lisa Miriam MacIntyre (Edinburgh, Great Britain) and Marc Philippe Yves Desmulliez (Edinburgh, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is described a method of producing a flexible structure and sensor devices incorporating the former,...