ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,485, issued on May 27, was assigned to Technische Universitat Darmstadt (Darmstadt, Germany).
"Component with an integrated sensor device for an optical, multi-axial measurement of a force application" was invented by Peter Groche (Muhltal, Germany) and Nassr Al-Baradoni (Darmstadt, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A component has an integrated sensor device for an optical, multi-axis measurement of a force applied to the component. The component includes a cavity and a first support element having one or more first optical elements and a second support element having one or more second optical elements. The first support eleme...