ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,326, issued on June 23, was assigned to Sintokogio Ltd. (Nagoya, Japan) and TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Sendai, Japan).
"Method for manufacturing force sensor" 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: "Provided is a method for manufacturing a force sensor including: preparing a first substrate which is made of a material that transmits electromagnetic waves and includes on its surface a metal array arranged in a periodic pattern and a second substrate which includes on its surface a metal layer that reflec...