ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,585,354, issued on March 24, was assigned to Tactonic Technologies LLC (New York) and New York University (New York).

"Mechanical force redistribution sensor array embedded in a single support layer" was invented by Kenneth Perlin (New York), Charles Hendee (Manteca, Calif.) and Alex Grau (Astoria, N.Y.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An MFR sensor array having a first supporting layer. The array has a second supporting layer. The array has a force sensing component disposed between the first and second supporting layers. The array has protrusions combined with the force supporting component, where there are only two supporting layers. W...