US Patent Issued to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University on Oct. 6 for "Optical tactile sensor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,754,084, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University (Stanford, Calif.).

"Optical tactile sensor" was invented by Monroe Kennedy III (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Won Kyung Do (Stanford, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An optical tactile sensing method is provided distinguishing having an optical tactile sensor and performing shape reconstruction and force measurement. The optical tactile sensor has an elastomeric hemisphere. A single camera captures the illumination of the entire reflective inner surface of the elastomeric hemisphere in a single input image. Shape reconstruction for a ...