Flexible Wearable Circuits for Motion-Minted NFT Avatars

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing flexible circuits in wearable articles are limited by their flexibility, resilience, and longevity, constraining their utility in various environments, and traditional cryptocurrencies are resource-intensive to mine.

Innovation Solution

Utilizing deformable conductive materials, such as conductive gel, in wearable articles to generate electrical parameters correlating to physical motions, which can be minted into non-fungible tokens (NFTs) for simulation and multimedia display, and used to mine digital assets based on physical motions.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Productivity

If traditional cryptocurrencies are mined using conventional methods, then digital assets can be generated, but excessive computational resources and energy are consumed

Engineering Contradiction:

Improvedigital asset generationVSAvoidcomputational resource consumption

Core Design Contradiction:

ProductivityVSLoss of energy

Solution Approach 1:

The patent replaces the conventional computational mining mechanism with a physical motion-based mechanism. Wearable articles equipped with sensors detect physical movements (steps, gestures, exercises) and convert them into cryptographic proofs for mining digital assets. This substitutes the energy-intensive computational process with a physical activity-based process, reducing computational resource consumption while maintaining digital asset generation capability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #28Mechanics substitution (Replace mechanical system)

Solution Approach 2:

The system enables users to mine digital assets through their own physical activities without requiring external computational infrastructure. The wearable articles autonomously capture motion data, process it into mining credentials, and submit transactions to the blockchain network, allowing individuals to self-serve in the digital asset generation process using their own bodily movements.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #25Self-service

2Adaptability or versatility

If flexible circuits are made more flexible for wearable applications, then comfort and adaptability improve, but structural integrity and longevity deteriorate

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveflexibilityVSAvoidstructural integrity

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSReliability

Solution Approach 1:

The patent employs flexible circuits constructed from thin-film technologies and flexible substrate materials that can bend and conform to body contours while maintaining electrical connectivity. These flexible circuits are integrated into wearable articles such as gloves, bands, or clothing, allowing them to adapt to various body parts and movements without compromising their structural integrity or operational reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #30Flexible shells and thin films

Solution Approach 2:

The flexible circuits utilize composite material structures combining conductive polymers, flexible substrates, and protective coatings. This composite construction provides both the necessary flexibility for wearable comfort and the structural strength for durability, resolving the contradiction between adaptability and reliability.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #40Composite materials

Applied Scientific Principles

This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.

Function Achieved in This Case

Enhances the utility and longevity of flexible circuits in wearable articles by correlating physical motions to NFTs, promoting user health and reducing resource waste in cryptocurrency mining.

Implementation Method 1

generating, via the wearable article, electrical parameters generated by a deformable conductor of the flexible circuit, wherein the generated electrical parameters vary with physical conditions of the flexible circuit in response to motions performed by a performer

Methodology Applied

Scientific EffectPiezoresistive effect: Piezoresistive Effect

Data Source

PatentUS20250384417A1Devices, systems, and methods for using wearable articles featuring flexible circuits in conjunction with non-fungible tokens

Publication Date: 2025.12.18 LIQUID WIRE INC

AI summary

A method of using a wearable article featuring a flexible circuit in conjunction with a non-fungible token is disclosed. The method can include generating electrical parameters generated by a deformable conductor of the flexible circuit, wherein the generated electrical parameters vary with motions performed by a performer; receiving data from the wearable article associated with the generated electrical parameters; minting the data associated with the generated electrical parameters into a non-fungible token; selling the non-fungible token to a consumer; correlating the data associated with the generated electrical parameters to various physical conditions of the flexible circuit; and generating a simulation of the motions performed while wearable article via an avatar based on the correlation.