US Patent Issued to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on April 1 for "Light emitting structure that emits light in accordance with load, load measuring device employing same, and load distribution measuring method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,264,982, issued on April 1, was assigned to NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Tokyo).

"Light emitting structure that emits light in accordance with load, load measuring device employing same, and load distribution measuring method" was invented by Yuki Fujio (Tosu, Japan), Kazuma Kurihara (Tsukuba, Japan), Kazuya Kikunaga (Tosu, Japan) and Kengo Manabe (Tsukuba, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A light emitting structure emits light in response to a load applied to an object from a load object. In the light emitting structure are formed contacting portions which are provided on a supporting surface of ...