US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Dec. 16 for "Sonicfinger: low-cost, compact, proximity and contact sensor for reactive positioning" (New Jersey, Minnesota, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,496,723, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Sonicfinger: low-cost, compact, proximity and contact sensor for reactive positioning" was invented by Siddharth Rupavatharam (Piscataway, N.J.), Richard Howard (Highland Park, N.J.), Daewon Lee (Princeton, N.J.), Lawrence Jackel (Keyport, N.J.), Caleb Sebastian Escobedo (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Ibrahim Volkan Isler (Saint Paul, Minn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In some embodiments, an apparatus for performing reactive positioning of a robot gripper includes one or more fingers disposed on an end-effector of the robot, a signal processing ci...