ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,253,425, issued on March 18, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).
"Force sensor" was invented by Hiroumi Kinjo (Tokyo) and Masatomo Hishinuma (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A force sensor includes a resin substrate, an array substrate, a sensor layer, a common electrode, and a protective film that are sequentially stacked. The array substrate includes a stretchable base material stacked on the resin substrate, and an array layer stacked on the resin substrate with the stretchable base material interposed between the array layer and the resin substrate, and the stretchable base material includes a plurality of first extensi...