ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,692, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to SOUTHEAST UNIVERSITY (Jiangsu, China).

"Sputtered film six-dimensional force sensor elastomer structure based on improved cross beam" 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 six-dimensional force sensor elastomer structure based on improved cross beam includes main beams, first floating beams, second floating beams, square corners and thin film strain gauges. Strain gauges are sputtered on the main beams and the first floating beams to form ...