US Patent Issued to MERCARI, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO on Feb. 24 for "Sensor and sensor manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,496, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to MERCARI INC. (Tokyo) and THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO (Tokyo).

"Sensor and sensor manufacturing method" was invented by Ryosuke Yamamura (Tokyo), Yasuaki Kakehi (Tokyo), Changyo Han (Tokyo), Rei Sakura (Tokyo) and Keisuke Watanabe (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor includes: a sensor section including a conductive structure made up of a three-dimensionally continuous unit lattices, each including a plurality of columnar beams; and output connectors that output a resistance value of the sensor section, the resistance value changing at least when the conductive structure is compressed by a...