ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,664,426, issued on June 23, was assigned to MAX-PLANCK-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER WISSENSCHAFTEN E. V. (Munich).

"Method for force inference of a sensor arrangement, methods for training networks, force inference module and sensor arrangement" was invented by Adam Spiers (Stuttgart, Germany), Hyosang Lee (Stuttgart, Germany), Georg Martius (Tubingen, Germany), Huanbo Sun (Tubingen, Germany) and Jonathan Fiene (Stuttgart, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The disclosure relates to a method for force inference of a sensor arrangement for sensing forces, the method including the steps of reading out pressure values and calculating ...