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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 11, 2026
Filed:
Apr. 22, 2024
Torc Robotics, Inc., Blacksburg, VA (US);
William Davis, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Hamzah Khan, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Christopher Harrison, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Joseph R. Fox-Rabinovitz, Blacksburg, VA (US);
Torc Robotics, Inc., Blacksburg, VA (US);
Abstract
A system including a plurality of first wires and a plurality of second wires is disclosed. Each second wire overlaps over one or more first wires at a respective overlapping area of one or more first wires. A dielectric material is disposed in a vertical gap at each respective overlapping area forming a capacitance sensor including a first electrode corresponding to a first wire and a second electrode corresponding to a second wire. The first and second electrodes are connected to a positive bias and a negative bias of at least one voltage source, respectively. The system includes at least one processor configured to periodically measure change in respective electric field of each capacitance sensor of a subset of capacitance sensors of a plurality of capacitance sensors, and store data corresponding to periodically measured change in the respective electric field of each capacitance sensor of the subset of capacitance sensors.