US Patent Issued to Massachusetts Institute of Technology on July 1 for "Omnidirectional soft capacitive tactile sensors, and methods of using the same" (Washington, Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,606, issued on July 1, was assigned to Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Omnidirectional soft capacitive tactile sensors, and methods of using the same" was invented by Tyler T. Okamoto (Newcastle, Wash.), Kamal Youcef-Toumi (Cambridge, Mass.) and Jiyoung Chang (Boston).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Composite sensors that exhibit four deformation modes decoupled from each other are disclosed. The modes include tension, compression, bending, and torsion. In one exemplary embodiment, the sensor includes a substrate and six unit sensors. The unit sensors are paired such that each pair includes two unit sensors di...