US Patent Issued to FORCEN on July 21 for "Force and torque sensor with overload structure and method for manufacturing" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,441, issued on July 21, was assigned to FORCEN INC. (Toronto).

"Force and torque sensor with overload structure and method for manufacturing" was invented by Samuel Kim (Toronto), Roberto Sanchez Enkerlin (Toronto), I-Hsiang Chen (Toronto) and Robert Joseph Brooks (Mississauga, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A force/torque sensor includes an outer body structure, an inner body structure, and three sensor structures extending between the outer body structure and the inner body structure. Overload structures are positioned between the sensor structures. An overload structure includes an outer portion that has a plurality of oute...