ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,570, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to AEGLE LLC (Hyogo, Japan).
"Touching evaluation device, and touching evaluation method" was invented by Tomoko Maekawa (Hyogo, Japan), Takayo Mitani (Hyogo, Japan) and Hiroyuki Tatsumi (Hyogo, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Measurement control part measures contact pressures and a contact speed of a hand of a contacting person. The contact pressures change over time at respective positions, as measured values respectively based on two sensors when the hand of the contacting person touches sequentially to the two sensors being capable of detecting contact pressure. A determination control p...