US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON on June 24 for "Combined flexible tactile sensors" (Ohio, Connecticut Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,339,180, issued on June 24, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF AKRON (Akron, Ohio).

"Combined flexible tactile sensors" was invented by Jae-Won Choi (Copley, Ohio) and Md. Omar Faruk Emon (Hamden, Conn.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tactile sensor including a first insulating layer, a first sensing layer of a first conductive soft polymer material, a second sensing layer of a second conductive soft polymer material and a second insulating layer. The first sensing layer includes first electrically conductive strip located therein and the first sensing layer is positioned above the first insulating layer. The second sensing layer include...