US Patent Issued to Contactile on Nov. 3 for "Sensing arrangement" (Australian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,211, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Contactile Pty Ltd (Coogee, Australia).

"Sensing arrangement" was invented by Benjamin Xia (Castle Hill, Australia) and Heba Khamis (Coogee, Australia).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Sensing arrangements for measuring force or torque by transmitting light on a reflective region and measuring how the reflected light is received, including a sensor arrangement that uses a non-symmetric reflective region and a sensor arrangement that uses multiple arrangements of at least three light sensors, where the at least three light sensors are arranged such that they are not co-linear."

The patent was filed ...