US Patent Issued to University of Massachusetts on May 13 for "Electrical system with hook-and-loop busbars" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,302,491, issued on May 13, was assigned to University of Massachusetts (Westborough, Mass.).

"Electrical system with hook-and-loop busbars" was invented by Ramaswamy Nagarajan (Shrewsbury, Mass.), Jayant Kumar (Westford, Mass.), Ravi Mosurkal (Westford, Mass.), Siddhant Iyer (Canton, Mass.), Claire Lepont (Arlington, Mass.) and Lian Li (North Chelmsford, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible circuit module is disclosed. The flexible circuit module includes a fabric member including a plurality of fibers having non-conductive elements, and conductive elements oriented through the plane of the fabric. Each conductive element incl...