ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,273, issued on April 15.
"Mid-air electromagnetic-based kinesthetic haptic device" was invented by Mina Maged Micheal Farag (Hengelo, Netherlands) and Alaaeldin Adel Mohamed Mahmoud Sadek (Cairo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed in the present invention is an electromagnetic-based haptic device that utilizes a flat wire coil type to provide the user with kinesthetic feedback in mid-air without direct contact. The invention comprises an array of flat wire coils, a localization system, a cooling fluid source, a magnetic agent attached to a stylus or a wearable device, current drivers and computer software. The flat wire coil comp...