B25J 13/084
Tactile sensors
Official title: {Tactile sensors (in general G01L5/16, G01L5/22)}
B25J13/084 (Tactile sensors) appears on 376 US grants and 495 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in B25J- Granted patents
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- Published applications
- 495
- Assignees
- 253
- Inventors
- 1,107
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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| 2026 | 31 | 51 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Event-driven visual-tactile sensing and learning for robots6 Oct 2026US 12,752,434 B2National University of Singapore
- Optical tactile sensor6 Oct 2026US 12,754,084 B2The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
- Gripping control device and gripping control method15 Sep 2026US 12,734,683 B2Sony Group Corporation
- Enhanced mobility wearable article with sensory cushioning system8 Sep 2026US 12,728,521 B2NIKE, Inc.
- Control device, control method, and control program1 Sep 2026US 12,722,291 B2OMRON Corporation
- Robotic foot sensor1 Oct 2026US 2026/0295860 A1Boston Dynamics, Inc.
- Flexible pressure sensors, robot hands, and methods of fabrication24 Sep 2026US 2026/0284902 A1Purdue Research Foundation
- End effector17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273772 A1Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Hand-local predictive tactile actuation gate for artificial intelligence (ai) controlled dexterous robotic manipulation17 Sep 2026US 2026/0273773 A1
- Storage box manipulator for swimming pools, indoor pools, outdoor pools, fitness studios, and changing areas of industrial companies17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274572 A1Delta-X GmbH Ingenieurgesellschaft
Most cited
By later US patents
- Distribution type tactile sensor308US 5,010,774 AThe Yokohama Rubber Co., Ltd. · 1991
- Stretchable interconnects using stress gradient films189US 6,743,982 B2Xerox Corporation · 2004
- Tactility providing apparatus and manipulating device using the same143US 5,389,849 AOlympus Optical Co., Ltd. · 1995
- Pressure-distribution sensor for controlling multi-jointed nursing robot143US 6,430,475 B2National Aerospace Laboratory of Japan · 2002
- Methods and apparatus for mechanically intelligent grasping135US 5,501,498 AThe Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania · 1996