US Patent Issued to Tacterion on May 20 for "Sensor device with a combined force and capacitance sensor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,306,060, issued on May 20, was assigned to Tacterion GmbH (Munich).

"Sensor device with a combined force and capacitance sensor" was invented by Holger Urbanek (Munich), Michael Wolfgang Strohmayr (Augsburg, Germany), Conrad Helminger (Munich) and Alexander Rommelt (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor device with a combined sensor to detect a force applied to the sensor by an object made of a material, a position of the force, and a capacitive coupling of the sensor with the object, including: a database to provide relationships Zn of a capacitive coupling CSEN-OBJ-MATn of the sensor with an object OBJ made of a material MATn ...