ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,584, issued on July 1, was assigned to AUO Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Static force resistance pressure sensor" was invented by Yi-Han Chang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Chung-Chin Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Wen-Yuan Li (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Wen-Chung Huang (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pressure sensor includes a substrate, a pressure sensing element, a first signal line, a second signal line, an elastomer, and an opposite substrate. The pressure sensing element includes first and second resistors connected in series, a third and fourth resistors connected in series, a first switch component, and a second switch component. The f...