US Patent Issued to Sanctuary Cognitive Systems on July 7 for "Method of manufacturing a fluidic tactile sensor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,673,432, issued on July 7, was assigned to Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corp. (Vancouver, Canada).

"Method of manufacturing a fluidic tactile sensor" was invented by Jeremy A. Fishel (Chico, Calif.), William Cortez (Chico, Calif.) and Jacob Grout (Chico, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a fluidic tactile sensor includes forming a mold insert having an insoluble sensor core and a soluble skin insert attached to an outer surface of the sensor core. An elastic skin is molded over the mold insert to form a sensor preform in which the skin insert is encapsulated between the elastic skin and the sensor core. The sk...