US Patent Issued to TACTERION on Jan. 13 for "Resistive and capacitive force sensor and method of operating the same" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,523,554, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to TACTERION GMBH (Munich).

"Resistive and capacitive force sensor and method of operating the same" was invented by Alaa Abdellah (Munich), Michael Wolfgang Strohmayr (Augsburg, Germany) and Marco Sgueglia (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Resistive and capacitive force sensor including an element having first and second electrodes, wherein the element is configured such that, when an external force is applied, intrinsic capacitance of the electrodes and intrinsic resistance between the electrodes change as a function of a magnitude of the external force; a first unit connected to the electr...