ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,305, issued on March 31, was assigned to PALEKANA VERWALTUNGS UG (HAFTUNGSBESCHRANKT) (Suderhotz, Germany).

"Intelligent human-machine interface and method which can be carried out using same" was invented by Andreas Geier (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A human-machine interface is configured for application to a skin area of an extremity, and may include a flexible layer to contact a surface of the skin area and includes magnetic or magnetizable elements, magnetic fields of which form a magnetic signature changing in response to deformation of the surface of the skin area, a detection device for measuring the magnetic signat...