ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,292,351, issued on May 6, was assigned to UltraSense Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Force-measuring device and related systems" was invented by Sina Akhbari (San Jose, Calif.), Hao-Yen Tang (San Jose, Calif.) and Mo Maghsoudnia (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A force-measuring device includes a first substrate, signal processing circuitry, a thin-film piezoelectric stack overlying the first substrate, and piezoelectric micromechanical force-measuring elements (PMFEs). The thin-film piezoelectric stack includes a piezoelectric layer. The PMFEs are located at respective lateral positions along the thin-film piezoelectri...