G01L 5/22
Apparatus for, or methods of, measuring force, work, mechanical power, or torque
Official title: for measuring the force applied to control members, e.g. control members of vehicles, triggers
G01L5/22 (Apparatus for, or methods of, measuring force, work, mechanical power, or torque) appears on 1,494 US grants and 1,559 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01L- Granted patents
- 1,494
- Published applications
- 1,559
- Assignees
- 784
- Inventors
- 3,256
- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
Filings by year
| Year | Granted patents | Published applications |
|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 4 | 0 |
| 1977 | 1 | 0 |
| 1978 | 0 | 0 |
| 1979 | 1 | 0 |
| 1980 | 1 | 0 |
| 1981 | 1 | 0 |
| 1982 | 4 | 0 |
| 1983 | 4 | 0 |
| 1984 | 6 | 0 |
| 1985 | 12 | 0 |
| 1986 | 12 | 0 |
| 1987 | 16 | 0 |
| 1988 | 7 | 0 |
| 1989 | 19 | 0 |
| 1990 | 14 | 0 |
| 1991 | 4 | 0 |
| 1992 | 3 | 0 |
| 1993 | 9 | 0 |
| 1994 | 7 | 0 |
| 1995 | 8 | 0 |
| 1996 | 18 | 0 |
| 1997 | 14 | 0 |
| 1998 | 9 | 0 |
| 1999 | 11 | 0 |
| 2000 | 3 | 0 |
| 2001 | 12 | 9 |
| 2002 | 27 | 31 |
| 2003 | 27 | 28 |
| 2004 | 20 | 39 |
| 2005 | 32 | 39 |
| 2006 | 33 | 26 |
| 2007 | 16 | 35 |
| 2008 | 31 | 29 |
| 2009 | 21 | 45 |
| 2010 | 30 | 33 |
| 2011 | 27 | 30 |
| 2012 | 23 | 42 |
| 2013 | 26 | 40 |
| 2014 | 40 | 45 |
| 2015 | 46 | 47 |
| 2016 | 53 | 76 |
| 2017 | 59 | 85 |
| 2018 | 81 | 107 |
| 2019 | 76 | 112 |
| 2020 | 102 | 115 |
| 2021 | 84 | 101 |
| 2022 | 84 | 122 |
| 2023 | 94 | 129 |
| 2024 | 113 | 80 |
| 2025 | 91 | 68 |
| 2026 | 58 | 46 |
By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
Subgroups
Granted patents
Recent patents
- Tool driver with reaction torque sensor for use in robotic surgery6 Oct 2026US 12,751,780 B2Auris Health, Inc.
- Optical tactile sensor6 Oct 2026US 12,754,084 B2The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University
- Light-based tactile sensing with directional sensitivity22 Sep 2026US 12,742,693 B2The Regents of the University of Michigan
- Sensor device having a torque sensor unit and a steering angle sensor unit for a motor vehicle15 Sep 2026US 12,735,099 B2Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH
- Force measuring device15 Sep 2026US 12,736,419 B2Shl Medical AG
- Measuring stress levels and using machine learning techniques to predict high risk behavior8 Oct 2026US 2026/0307686 A1Quanata, LLC
- Hands on/off detection sensor in a vehicle1 Oct 2026US 2026/0298742 A1Ford Global Technologies, LLC
- Method and device for detecting contact of hands with a steering wheel of a vehicle17 Sep 2026US 2026/0274280 A1
- Bionic mechanical sensor17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276465 A1Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc.
- System, method, and apparatus for modeling correlating physical contact to performance20 Aug 2026US 2026/0241535 A1
Most cited
By later US patents
- Force and torque sensing for surgical instruments1,174US 8,945,095 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. · 2015
- Torque compensation1,065US 9,675,354 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. · 2017
- Torque detector1,014US 6,539,816 B2Kayaba Industry Co., Ltd. · 2003
- Apparatus and method for monitoring contact pressure between body parts and contact surfaces415US 5,253,656 A1993
- Detection of undesirable forces on a surgical robotic arm385US 10,145,747 B1Auris Health, Inc. · 2018