ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,040, issued on April 7, was assigned to HITACHI LTD. (Tokyo).
"Pressure sensor and wearable sensor" was invented by Hiroyuki Yoshimoto (Tokyo) and Yu Yamada (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique that can emit a sensor signal that accurately reflects only the pressure to be truly detected in a glove-type wearable sensor in which a film-like pressure sensor is incorporated into a fingertip of a thin work glove is disclosed. In a film-like pressure sensor incorporated into a fingertip of a glove-type wearable sensor, three coordinate axis directions in a three-dimensional orthogonal coordinate system are assumed to be a vert...