ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,315, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Load sensor" was invented by Yui Aihara (Osaka, Japan), Susumu Uragami (Osaka, Japan) and Yuta Moriura (Osaka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A load sensor includes: an electrode; a dielectric body disposed on a surface of the electrode; and an electrically-conductive elastic body having electrical conductivity and disposed so as to be opposed to the dielectric body. A plurality of projections are formed on a surface on the dielectric body side of the electrically-conductive elastic body, and the thickness of the diele...