US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Dec. 9 for "Devices and methods involving sensing in response to an applied touch or other force" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,492,955, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Devices and methods involving sensing in response to an applied touch or other force" was invented by Levent Beker (Stanford, Calif.) and Zhenan Bao (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In certain examples, methods and semiconductor structures are directed to a strain sensor integrated with a membrane substrate, a pressure sensor, and a plurality of material layers. The material layers are to integrate the strain sensor, the pressure sensor and the membrane substrate, with the pressure and strain senso...