US Patent Issued to National Tsing Hua University on Feb. 3 for "Sensing device and sensing method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,540,918, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to National Tsing Hua University (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Sensing device and sensing method" was invented by Zong-Hong Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan), Snigdha Roy Barman (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Kuan-Ming Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensing device includes a robotic hand, an electrode and a triboelectric sensing layer. The robotic hand includes at least one robot finger. One robot finger is integrated with an electrode layer which is functionalized with a triboelectric sensing layer. The triboelectric sensing layer is composed of plurality of nanostructures including Tellurium. The robot ha...