ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,759, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Haptic output system" was invented by Micah H. Fenner (San Francisco) and Camille Moussette (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of providing a haptic output includes detecting a condition; determining if a head-mounted haptic accessory comprising an array of two or more haptic actuators is being worn by a user; determining an actuation pattern for the array of haptic actuators; and in response to detecting the condition and determining that the head-mounted haptic accessory is being worn by the user, initiating the actuation pattern to produce...