US Patent Issued to National University of Singapore on March 25 for "Low hysteresis and flexible pressure sensitive composite" (Singaporean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,259,287, issued on March 25, was assigned to National University of Singapore (Singapore).

"Low hysteresis and flexible pressure sensitive composite" was invented by Chee Keong Tee (Singapore), Haicheng Yao (Singapore), Weidong Yang (Singapore) and Yu Jun Tan (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensing structure and a method of fabricating a sensing structure for a compressive-type pressure sensor. The method comprises the steps of providing an elastic micropatterned substrate defining a plurality of 3-dimensional microstructures, each microstructure comprising a tip portion pointing away from the substrate in a first direction;...