ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,600,031, issued on April 14, was assigned to Tacta Systems Inc. (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Tactile robotic training platform" was invented by Dariusz Golda (Portola Valley, Calif.), Nahid Harjee (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Vikram Pavate (Foster City, Calif.), David Weisberg (Mill Valley, Calif.) and Andreas Bibl (Los Altos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable device may include an article configured to be worn by a user and a sensor array coupled with the article. The sensor array may be configured to obtain force data, among other data. A system can receive information generated by the wearable device utilized to perform a task. The i...