ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,257,698, issued on March 25, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).
"Support device" was invented by Tetsuya Narita (Tokyo) and Satoko Nagakari (Chiba, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a support device capable of supporting an object with a more appropriate supporting force. A support device includes an elastic body that comes into contact with a supported object on at least a part of a surface of the elastic body, the surface having a plurality of curvatures different from each other, and a detection unit that detects information regarding a shear force of a portion of the surface of the elastic...