ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,817, issued on March 18, was assigned to INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATION, CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (Beijing).

"Device, system and method for acquiring force information based on bionic structure" was invented by Xiaohu Zhou (Beijing), Zengguang Hou (Beijing), Meijiang Gui (Beijing), Xiaoliang Xie (Beijing), Shiqi Liu (Beijing), Zhenqiu Feng (Beijing), Yanjie Zhou (Beijing), Lingwu Meng (Beijing) and Hao Li (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a device, a system and a method for acquiring a force information based on a bionic structure, including: a force information acquisition layer and a magnetic field signal acquisitio...