US Patent Issued to Sony Group on July 1 for "Sensor and electronic apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,591, issued on July 1, was assigned to Sony Group Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sensor and electronic apparatus" was invented by Yoshiaki Sakakura (Tokyo), Ken Kobayashi (Tokyo), Tetsuro Goto (Tokyo) and Kei Tsukamoto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor according to the present technology includes a sensor unit and a separation layer. The sensor unit includes a first pressure sensor on a front side and a second pressure sensor on a rear side that are opposite to each other and detects, on the basis of pressure detection positions in an in-plane direction by the first pressure sensor and the second pressure sensor, a force in the in-plane...