US Patent Issued to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Toyota Jidosha on July 29 for "Pressure sensor for an inflatable structure" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,372,430, issued on July 29, was assigned to Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America Inc. (Plano, Texas) and Toyota Jidosha K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Pressure sensor for an inflatable structure" was invented by Xiaopeng Li (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Taehwa Lee (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Ziqi Yu (Ann Arbor, Mich.) and Yuyang Song (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems described herein relate to sensing pressure. In one arrangement, a pressure sensor is disclosed. The pressure sensor includes a circuit including a resistor, an inductor, and a capacitor. The circuit generates an electrical resonance. The resistor is an elasto...