US Patent Issued to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force on April 22 for "Multi-junction resistance strain gauge design for enhanced gauge factor" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,281,949, issued on April 22, was assigned to United States of America as represented by the Secretary of the Air Force (Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio).

"Multi-junction resistance strain gauge design for enhanced gauge factor" was invented by Roberto Aga (Beavercreek, Ohio) and Emily Heckman (Oakwood, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-junction resistance strain gauge comprises a substrate; a sinterable ink deposited directly on the substrate forming a non-conductive pattern; a stripe pattern generated on the sinterable ink by sintering, the stripe pattern having one or more non-conductive gaps, the stripe pattern having a first elec...