US Patent Issued to DEUTSCHE INSTITUTE FUR TEXTIL-UND FASERFORSCHUNG DENKENDORF on Sept. 15 for "Piezoresistive force sensor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,736,421, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to DEUTSCHE INSTITUTE FUR TEXTIL-UND FASERFORSCHUNG DENKENDORF (Denkendorf, Germany).

"Piezoresistive force sensor" was invented by Paul Hofmann (Illertissen, Germany) and Sarah Kim (Calw-Stammheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piezoresistive force sensor generates a sensor signal dependent on an amount of a force acting on the force sensor in a force measuring direction. The force sensor has a first electrode, a second electrode and an elastically deformable resistance layer electrically connects the two electrodes. A resistance value of a total resistance of an electrically conduct...