US Patent Issued to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY on Feb. 3 for "Systems and methods for sensing deformation of a magnetic material and fabrication methods thereof" (Pennsylvania Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,810, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY (Pittsburgh).

"Systems and methods for sensing deformation of a magnetic material and fabrication methods thereof" was invented by Tess Hellebrekers (Pittsburgh) and Carmel Majidi (Pittsburgh).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A soft magnetic sensor comprising a soft material containing randomly distributed magnetic microparticles and a magnetometer that can estimate force and localize contact over a continuous area. A reference magnetometer can be used to filter motion and ambient noise. Methods for locating contact and determining force comprise data analysis of the magne...