ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,332,130, issued on June 17, was assigned to Sintokogio Ltd. (Aichi, Japan).
"Force sensor module" was invented by Yoshikane Tanaami (Nagoya, Japan), Miyuki Hayashi (Nagoya, Japan), Yoshiaki Kanamori (Sendai, Japan) and Taiyu Okatani (Sendai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In order to reduce the chance that a metasurface pattern is damaged by electrostatic discharge, a force sensor module includes a first substrate having light transparency; a metasurface pattern provided on a first principal surface; a second substrate provided so as to face the first substrate and including a second principal surface facing the first principal sur...