Textile Pressure Sensors: Innovations and Intellectual Property Landscape †
Abstract
1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
3. Results and Discussion
4. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Conflicts of Interest
Appendix A
- Patentscope
- Google Patents
- Espacenet
- Orbit Intelligence
Search Step | Results | Query |
1 | 21 | (TEXTILE PRESSURE SENSOR)/TI/AB/CLMS/ICLM |
2 | 52 | (FABRIC PRESSURE SENSOR)/TI/AB/CLMS/ICLM |
3 | 0 | (KNITTED PRESSURE SENSOR)/TI/AB/CLMS/ICLM |
4 | 87 | (TEXTILE PRESSURE SENSOR)/TI/AB/CLMS/DESC/ODES/ICLM |
5 | 130 | (FABRIC PRESSURE SENSOR)/TI/AB/CLMS/DESC/ODES/ICLM |
6 | 206 | 1 OR 2 OR 4 OR 5 |
7 | 59 | (TEXTILE PRESSURE SENSOR)/KEYW/TI/AB |
8 | 134 | (FABRIC PRESSURE SENSOR)/KEYW/TI/AB |
9 | 1 | (KNITTED PRESSURE SENSOR)/KEYW/TI/AB |
10 | 288 | 6 OR 7 OR 8 OR 9 |
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Barbieri, M.; Andreoni, G. Textile Pressure Sensors: Innovations and Intellectual Property Landscape. Eng. Proc. 2024, 82, 37. https://doi.org/10.3390/ecsa-11-20512
Barbieri M, Andreoni G. Textile Pressure Sensors: Innovations and Intellectual Property Landscape. Engineering Proceedings. 2024; 82(1):37. https://doi.org/10.3390/ecsa-11-20512
Chicago/Turabian StyleBarbieri, Massimo, and Giuseppe Andreoni. 2024. "Textile Pressure Sensors: Innovations and Intellectual Property Landscape" Engineering Proceedings 82, no. 1: 37. https://doi.org/10.3390/ecsa-11-20512
APA StyleBarbieri, M., & Andreoni, G. (2024). Textile Pressure Sensors: Innovations and Intellectual Property Landscape. Engineering Proceedings, 82(1), 37. https://doi.org/10.3390/ecsa-11-20512