ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,755,401, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. Ltd. (Suwon-si, South Korea).
"Optical tactile sensor" was invented by Hyunseok Hong (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jinpyo Gwak (Suwon-si, South Korea).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical tactile sensor module is provided. The optical tactile sensor includes a housing, an elastic part including a first surface for contacting an object, a plurality of markers disposed at the elastic part and being adjacent to the first surface of the elastic part, and a camera unit configured to capture an image of a movement of at least some of the plurality of the markers on the first s...