ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,195, issued on May 13, was assigned to SENSATA TECHNOLOGIES INC. (Attleboro, Mass.).
"Sensor apparatuses" was invented by Frank H. Jacobs (Broekland, Netherlands), Maarten P. Van Noorden (Linde, Netherlands), Bart Goedegebuure (Borne, Netherlands), Edward H. Bernhardi (Saasveld, Netherlands) and Thomas Gerjen Hendrik Kouwen (Nieuwleusen, Netherlands).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a particular embodiment, a force sensor apparatus is disclosed that includes a sensor housing and a sensing assembly. In this particular embodiment, the sensing assembly includes a force-compliant element having a center portion and an outer portion; one ...