ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,039, issued on April 7, was assigned to Sintokogio Ltd. (Aichi, Japan) and TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Miyagi, Japan).
"Force sensor module" was invented by Yoshikane Tanaami (Nagoya, Japan), Miyuki Hayashi (Nagoya, Japan), Yoshiaki Kanamori (Sendai, Japan) and Taiyu Okatani (Sendai, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A force sensor module includes: a force sensor configured to detect an external force according to the amount of deflection of a strain element that deflects in response to the external force; a housing that accommodates the force sensor; and a force transferring section configured to transfer the external force to the strain ...