US Patent Issued to THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD on May 27 for "Apparatus and methods for determining force applied to the tip of a probe" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,310,753, issued on May 27, was assigned to THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD (Sheffield, Great Britain).

"Apparatus and methods for determining force applied to the tip of a probe" was invented by Dilichukwu Anumba (Sheffield, Great Britain) and Timothy James Healey (Sheffield, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus for determining a force Ftip applied to a tip of an electrical impedance spectroscopy probe includes a load cell, accelerometer, and a processing means. The probe tip has a substantially planar distal end for contacting human or animal tissue. The load cell measures the force Floadcell applied axially along a lon...