US Patent Issued to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS on Sept. 30 for "Optical tactile sensor and method for estimating shape from touch" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,330, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Optical tactile sensor and method for estimating shape from touch" was invented by Kaleem Siddiqi (Montreal), Affan Jilani (Pointe-Claire, Canada), Charlotte Morissette (Montreal), Francois Hogan (St-Jean-sur-Richelieu, Canada), Michael Jenkin (Toronto) and Gregory Lewis Dudek (Westmount, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by an optical tactile sensor comprising a camera, includes: measuring a plurality of relations between the optical tactile sensor and an object; detecting a contact of a membrane on the object; det...