ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,933, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY (Jiangsu, China).
"Combined structure for thin film sputtering high-precision six-dimensional force sensor" was invented by Aiguo Song (Jiangsu, China), Jingjing Xu (Jiangsu, China), Yuhan Chen (Jiangsu, China), Baoguo Xu (Jiangsu, China) and Huijun Li (Jiangsu, China).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A combined structure of a thin film sputtered high-precision six-dimensional force sensor includes a cross beam, a double U-shaped beam, a base, a top cover, a bottom cover and thin film strain gauges. Strain gauges are sputtered on the main beam to form six sets of Wheatstone br...