US Patent Issued to TDK on Nov. 3 for "Sensor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,218, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sensor" was invented by Masanori Kobayashi (Tokyo), Ken Unno (Tokyo), Tetsuya Sasahara (Tokyo), Tetsuo Hata (Tokyo) and Lucie Ouedraogo (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor including: a base material having a surface on which streaks are formed along a first direction in a plan view; and a conductive film pattern formed on or above the surface and configured to connect mutually different positions in an in-plane direction of the surface in a shape in which a length of a conductive path is longer than a length of a straight line connecting the different positions, in ...