US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Feb. 24 for "Systems and methods for taxel hyper-resolution through multi-contact localization" (California, Rhode Island Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,795, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Systems and methods for taxel hyper-resolution through multi-contact localization" was invented by Nawid Jamali (San Francisco), Hongyu Li (Providence, R.I.) and Soshi Iba (Mountain View, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for taxel hyper-resolution output are provided. Tactile sensors contact an object and produce taxel data for each contact made. Taxel data from the tactile sensors is encoded and compared with detailed geometric data of a known object to generate a set of ranked poses. For each pose one or more substantially matching candi...