US Patent Issued to NextInput on Aug. 12 for "Systems and methods for continuous mode force testing" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,385,794, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NextInput Inc. (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Systems and methods for continuous mode force testing" was invented by Michael Dueweke (Campbell, Calif.), Allan Liu (HsinChu, Taiwan) and Dan Benjamin (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described herein is a method and system for testing a force or strain sensor in a continuous fashion. The method employs a sensor, a test fixture, a load cell, a mechanical actuator and tester hardware and software to simultaneously record signal outputs from the sensor and load cell as functions of time. The method provides time synchronization events for recording...