US Patent Issued to Gelsight on July 1 for "Systems and methods for touch sensing" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,524, issued on July 1, was assigned to Gelsight Inc. (Waltham, Mass.).

"Systems and methods for touch sensing" was invented by Janos Rohaly (Concord, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One embodiment is directed to a system for characterizing interaction between surfaces, comprising: a deformable transmissive layer coupled to an interface membrane, wherein the interface membrane is interfaced against at least one aspect of an interfaced object; a first illumination source operatively coupled to the deformable transmissive layer and configured to emit first illumination light into the deformable transmissive layer at a known first il...