By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News-From Washington, D.C., NewsRx journali sts report that a patent application by the inventors FURUYA, Hiroyuki (Osaka, J P); HAMANO, Takafumi (Osaka, JP); MATSUMOTO, Takashi (Osaka, JP); MATSUMURA, Yod ai (Osaka, JP); MORIURA, Yuta (Osaka, JP); URAGAMI, Susumu (Osaka, JP), filed on November 13, 2023, was made available online on March 14, 2024. No assignee for this patent application has been made. News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors: " "Field of the Invention "The present invention relates to a load sensor that detects a load applied from outside, based on change in capacitance. "Description of Related Art "Load sensors are widely used in the fields of industrial apparatuses, robots, v ehicles, and the like. In recent years, in accordance with advancement of contro l technologies by computers and improvement of design, development of electronic apparatuses that use a variety of free-form surfaces such as those in human-for m robots and interior equipment of automobiles is in progress. In association th erewith, it is required to mount a high performance load sensor to each free-for m surface.