US Patent Issued to Siemens Healthineers on Feb. 24 for "Force measurement film, motion robot having force measurement film and method for controlling the motion robot using the force measurement film" (German Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,558,796, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Siemens Healthineers AG (Forchheim, Germany).

"Force measurement film, motion robot having force measurement film and method for controlling the motion robot using the force measurement film" was invented by Armin Reichert (Stein, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible force measurement film is provided for detecting a contact force acting on the force measurement film, the force measurement film including a top tier to absorb the contact force; an attachment tier; and a sensor tier including an electrical resistance of the sensor tier that changes as a function of the contact force ...