ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,556, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to MINEBEA MITSUMI Inc. (Nagano, Japan).
"Strain gauge" was invented by Shinya Toda (Shizuoka, Japan), Eiji Misaizu (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kosuke Kitahara (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A strain gauge includes a flexible substrate, a resistor, and electrodes. Each electrode includes first patterns juxtaposed at predetermined intervals and electrically connected to each other. Second patterns of which longitudinal directions are toward a same direction as a longitudinal direction of each of the first patterns are disposed between opposing electrodes. The second patterns are electric...