US Patent Issued on July 8 for "Virtual reality glove" (Florida Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,629, issued on July 8.

"Virtual reality glove" was invented by Jonathan P. Nieman (Port Charlotte, Fla.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and apparatus for interacting with a virtual reality environment by means of a virtual reality glove comprising artificial muscles. A plurality of artificial muscles comprising individual artificial muscles operable to either expand or contract is embedded in or attached to a virtual reality glove. Individual artificial muscles are actuated in response to stimulus in the virtual reality environment such that a user wearing the virtual reality glove experiences resistance to virtual objects sim...