US Patent Issued to Contactile on July 14 for "Friction-based tactile sensor for measuring grip security" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,972, issued on July 14, was assigned to Contactile Pty Ltd (Coogee, Australia).

"Friction-based tactile sensor for measuring grip security" was invented by Stephen James Redmond (South Maroubra, Australia), Heba Khamis (Coogee, Australia) and Benjamin Xia (Castle Hill, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system for estimating friction, the system including a contact surface including a plurality of protrusions extending from a base surface, the contact surface further including a first contact surface region and a second contact surface region, the first contact surface region being configured to resist slip less than the seco...