Cross-cut: sensor-strain-gauge
Axis: sensors
3 corpus entries disclose this tag.
Earliest disclosure: 1942-08
Listed in chronological order. Each entry’s prior_art_notes and
disclosure_citation constitute the citeable prior art material.
‘Waldo’ — wearable master gloves for teleoperated manipulation (1942-08)
- id:
heinlein-waldo-master-gloves - corpus: fictional
- form factor: garment
- creator: Robert A. Heinlein
- disclosure: Heinlein, Robert A. (as Anson MacDonald). ‘Waldo’, Astounding Science-Fiction, August 1942; the operator wears master gloves whose movements are mirrored by remote manipulator hands (‘waldoes’) of any scale, with force/position feedback to the operator.
- ip status: fictional
- sensors: sensor-strain-gauge
- prior art notes: Discloses wearable instrumented gloves that capture the operator’s hand and finger motion and forces, drive a remote manipulator that mirrors them, and return force/position feedback to the wearer — the foundational data-glove / telemanipulation-glove concept (the engineering term ‘waldo’ derives from this story). Relevant to data-glove claims combining ‘a glove instrumented for hand/finger pose and force’, ‘transmission to a remote manipulator’, and ‘haptic feedback to the wearer’. § 103 motivation as of 1942. Cf. [[ready-player-one-haptic-suit]], [[surrogates-neural-teleoperation-rig]].
Sensimed Triggerfish (2009) — the only commercially shipping smart contact lens (24-h intraocular pressure monitoring for glaucoma) (2009)
- id:
sensimed-triggerfish-iop-contact-lens-2009 - corpus: private
- form factor: contact-lens
- creator: Sensimed SA (founders: Bertrand Mercier, Matteo Leonardi)
- disclosure: Sensimed SA (Lausanne, Switzerland). ‘Triggerfish’ continuous 24-h intraocular pressure (IOP) monitoring contact lens system, CE-marked Class IIa 2009, FDA De Novo (DEN150040) granted March 2016. A soft hydrogel contact lens with embedded strain-gauge antenna whose resonance frequency shifts with circumferential deformation of the cornea (a proxy for IOP), wirelessly read by a periorbital adhesive antenna patch. The only smart contact lens to reach the commercial market for any indication. https://www.sensimed.ch
- ip status: patented
- sensors: sensor-strain-gauge
- prior art notes: Discloses a commercially-shipped smart contact lens for continuous, wirelessly-read measurement of a physiological parameter (intraocular pressure proxy via cornea circumferential strain) — the first and so far only smart contact lens cleared for commercial use anywhere in the world. Anticipates smart-contact-lens claims combining ‘a soft ophthalmic contact lens’, ‘an embedded strain or other sensor measuring a physiological parameter’, ‘wireless readout to a body-mounted patch’, and ‘continuous monitoring over a clinically-meaningful interval (24 hours)’ from 2009. Anchor for the contact-lens × shipped-medical-device cross-cut; complement to [[yao-parviz-2011-contact-lens-glucose-sensor]] (academic), [[verily-google-smart-contact-lens-2014]] (private, never shipped), and [[mojo-vision-ar-contact-lens-2022]] (AR, never shipped).
Kim et al. (Rogers group) (2011) — ‘Epidermal Electronics’ (electronic-tattoo skin-mounted devices) (2011-08-12)
- id:
kim-rogers-2011-epidermal-electronics - corpus: academic
- form factor: tattoo-electronic
- creator: Dae-Hyeong Kim et al. / John A. Rogers group (Illinois)
- disclosure: Kim D-H, Lu N, Ma R, Kim Y-S, Kim R-H, Wang S, et al. (Rogers JA). ‘Epidermal Electronics.’ Science 2011;333(6044):838-843.
- ip status: public-domain
- sensors: sensor-ecg, sensor-emg, sensor-eeg, sensor-skin-temperature, sensor-strain-gauge
- prior art notes: Discloses ultrathin, skin-conformal (‘epidermal’) electronic devices laminated directly onto the skin like a temporary tattoo, integrating electrodes, sensors (ECG, EMG, EEG, temperature, strain), interconnects, and even wireless components, mechanically matched to the skin so they move with it. The foundational disclosure of the ‘electronic skin / electronic tattoo’ form factor. Any claim reciting ‘an ultrathin stretchable electronic device conformally mounted on the skin’ for physiological sensing reads on Kim/Rogers 2011. Anchor for the tattoo-electronic form-factor cross-cut on the real side.