ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,286, issued on March 25, was assigned to INTERLINK ELECTRONICS INC. (Irvine, Calif.).
"Multi-modal sensing transducers" was invented by Cheng Seong Lee (Singapore) and Chee Wai Lu (Singapore).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A multi-modal sensing transducer may include a force concentrator having an external sensing surface. The multi-modal sensing transducer may also include at least one electrode coupled to the force concentrator. Further, the multi-modal sensing transducer may include at least one force sensitive element disposed adjacent to the at least one electrode. Moreover, the multi-modal sensing transducer may include at leas...