US Patent Issued to CANON on Sept. 8 for "Tactile sensor and apparatus including tactile sensor" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,020, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).

"Tactile sensor and apparatus including tactile sensor" was invented by Chihiro Nagura (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tactile sensor includes a light guide unit extending in a predetermined direction, provided to guide light, incident from a light-emitting element, in the predetermined direction and including a pair of surfaces opposite to each other extending in the predetermined direction, an optical translucent elastic member, disposed on one side of the light guide unit, including a marker configured to diffuse light incident via one surface of the lig...