G01L 5/164
Using variations in inductance
Official title: using variations in inductance
G01L5/164 (Using variations in inductance) appears on 53 US grants and 60 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01L- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
- 26 May 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Recent patents
- Force detection based on profile of magnetically sensitive material26 May 2026US 12,638,346 B2Analog Devices International Unlimited Company
- Force sensor and robot equipped with force sensor2 Dec 2025US 12,487,136 B2Canon Kabushiki Kaisha
- Force and torque sensor for prosthetic and orthopedic devices5 Aug 2025US 12,379,266 B2University of Utah Research Foundation
- Force sensor with target on semiconductor package24 Jun 2025US 12,339,159 B2Melexis Technologies SA
- Force sensing system and method27 May 2025US 12,314,558 B2Cirrus Logic, Inc.
- A sensor array comprising soft force sensors6 Aug 2026US 2026/0227250 A1Melexis Technologies SA
- Force and torque sensor for prosthetic and orthopedic devices30 Oct 2025US 2025/0334460 A1University of Utah Research Foundation
- Force sensor with target on semiconductor package11 Sep 2025US 2025/0283751 A1Melexis Technologies SA
- Inductive thumb stick14 Aug 2025US 2025/0258053 A1Azoteq Holdings Limited
- Two-dimensional pressure sensor and two-dimensional pressure sensor array26 Jun 2025US 2025/0207989 A1Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
Most cited
By later US patents
- Hand controller255US 4,216,467 AWestinghouse Electric Corp. · 1980
- Force sensing system and method49US 10,860,202 B2Cirrus Logic, Inc. · 2020
- Multi-axis force platform44US 5,814,740 AAdvanced Mechanical Technology, Inc. · 1998
- Multi-axis force platform42US 5,400,661 AAdvanced Mechanical Technology, Inc. · 1995
- Multi-axis load cell41US 3,939,704 AThe Bendix Corporation · 1976