ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,727, issued on March 25, was assigned to National University of Singapore (Singapore).

"Event-driven visual-tactile sensing and learning for robots" was invented by Chee Keong Tee (Singapore), Hian Hian See (Singapore), Brian Lim (Singapore), Soon Hong Harold Soh (Singapore), Tasbolat Taunyazov (Singapore), Weicong Sng (Singapore), Sheng Yuan Jethro Kuan (Singapore) and Abdul Fatir Ansari (Singapore, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A classifying sensing system, a classifying method performed using a sensing system, a tactile sensor, and a method of fabricating a tactile sensor. The classifying sensing system comprises a first s...