G01L 5/226
To manipulators
Official title: {to manipulators, e.g. the force due to gripping}
G01L5/226 (To manipulators) appears on 555 US grants and 556 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in G01L- Granted patents
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- Latest grant
- 6 Oct 2026
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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
- Taxel-based tactile sensor18 Aug 2026US 12,710,326 B2Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Sensor device including elastic cover including portions with varying heights and a gap between portions28 Jul 2026US 12,693,182 B2Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
- Bionic mechanical sensor17 Sep 2026US 2026/0276465 A1Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc.
- Electronic device13 Aug 2026US 2026/0233410 A1Advanced Semiconductor Engineering, Inc.
- Magnetic tactile sensor with magnetic field immunity13 Aug 2026US 2026/0235456 A1Analog Devices, Inc.
- Inductive and capacitive tactile sensors13 Aug 2026US 2026/0235464 A1Analog Devices, Inc.
- Orientational color-based deformation sensor and systems and methods using the same23 Jul 2026US 2026/0210700 A1Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha
Most cited
By later US patents
- Torque compensation1,065US 9,675,354 B2Intuitive Surgical Operations, Inc. · 2017
- 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
- Detection of misalignment of robotic arms243US 10,539,478 B2Auris Health, Inc. · 2020
- Apparatus and method for monitoring contact pressure between body parts and contact surfaces204US 5,993,400 A1999