ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,335,422, issued on June 17, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Handheld electronic device" was invented by Ava Iranmanesh (Cupertino, Calif.), Yaocheng Zhang (Cupertino, Calif.), Douglas G. Fournier (San Jose, Calif.), Benjamin J. Pope (Woodside, Calif.) and Richard Dinh (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable electronic device may include an enclosure defining an interior cavity and having a front cover, and a haptic engine positioned in the interior cavity. The haptic engine may include a first body component defining a first side of the haptic engine and including a first spring flexure and a first e...