US Patent Issued to The Regents of the University of California on July 14 for "Tactile sensor array on flexible substrate with piezoelectric TFT tactile sensor" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,678,947, issued on July 14, was assigned to The Regents of the University of California (Oakland, Calif.).

"Tactile sensor array on flexible substrate with piezoelectric TFT tactile sensor" was invented by Shadi A. Dayeh (San Diego) and Hongseok Oh (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A flexible thin film transistor tactile sensor includes a piezoelectric semiconductor thin film channel of material whose conductivity can be electrostatically controlled connected with source and drain metals and sandwiched between bottom and top thin film insulators and at least one of a bottom and top gate metal, the sensor being supported on a flex...