US Patent Issued on June 30 for "Device for detecting user input with force sensor in stem thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,387, issued on June 30.

"Device for detecting user input with force sensor in stem thereof" was invented by Yen-Po Chen (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan), Hao-Che Liu (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan), Yen-Chang Chu (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan) and Chih-Ming Sun (Hsin-Chu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a force sensor including a substrate and a polymer material layer. The substrate has a circuit layout that includes a first electrode and a second electrode configured to form a capacitor therebetween. The polymer material layer covers at least on a space between the first electrode and the second electrode, and is used t...