US Patent Issued to New York University, Tactonic Technologies on Feb. 10 for "Apparatus for determining shear forces in regard to a pressure imaging array, single point sensor for shear forces, and method" (California, New York Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,546,672, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to New York University (New York) and Tactonic Technologies LLC (New York).

"Apparatus for determining shear forces in regard to a pressure imaging array, single point sensor for shear forces, and method" was invented by Kenneth Perlin (New York) and Charles Hendee (Manteca, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor having a layer and one or more sensing elements which sense shear force and compressive force on the layer. The sensor having a computer in communication with the one or more sensing elements which causes prompting signals to be sent to the one or more sensing elements and reconst...