ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,361,516, issued on July 15, was assigned to DALIAN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY (Liaoning, China).

"Tactile pattern super resolution reconstruction method and acquisition system" was invented by Qian Liu (Liaoning, China), Bing Wu (Liaoning, China), Qiang Zhang (Liaoning, China) and Xiaopeng Wei (Liaoning, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a tactile pattern Super Resolution (SR) reconstruction method and acquisition system, which belong to the field of tactile perception. First, a High Resolution (HR) tactile pattern sample is obtained by using a Low Resolution (LR) tactile sensor; then, a deep learning-b...