ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,794, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Ocado Innovation Ltd. (Hatfield, Great Britain).
"Tactile sensor" was invented by Jan Fras (Hatfield, Great Britain), Panagiotis Sotiropoulos (Hatfield, Great Britain), Hussein Mnyusiwalla (Hatfield, Great Britain), Enrique Del Sol Acero (Hatfield, Great Britain) and Pavlos Triantafyllou (Hatfield, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This disclosure relates to a finger assembly for a manipulating apparatus including a rigid body and a deformable membrane received within an aperture. The deformable membrane includes a gripping surface arranged to grip an object being manipulated and vis...