ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,381, issued on Nov. 25.
"Fabric sensing device" was invented by Daniel A Podhajny (Morgan Hill, Calif.), Kathryn P Crews (Menlo Park, Calif.) and Daniel D Sunshine (Austin, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch-sensitive textile device that is configured to detect the occurrence of a touch, the location of a touch, and/or the force of a touch on the touch-sensitive textile device. In some embodiments, the touch-sensitive textile device includes a first set of conductive threads oriented along a first direction, and a second set of conductive threads interwoven with the first set of conductive threads and oriented along a secon...