ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,482, issued on May 27, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Sensor system, sensing method, and program" was invented by Takeshi Mori (Osaka, Japan), Toshio Yamazaki (Fukui, Japan), Isao Hattori (Fukui, Japan) and Hirotsugu Suzuki (Ishikawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor system includes a sensor element, a signal processing circuit, and a pseudo-signal correction circuit. The sensor element outputs an electric signal corresponding to an external force. The signal processing circuit converts the electric signal coming from the sensor element into a signal having a certain ...