ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,551, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Enclosure with locally-flexible regions" was invented by Alex J. Lehmann (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Robert Y. Cao (San Francisco), Dinesh C. Mathew (San Francisco), Mikael M. Silvanto (San Francisco), Qiliang Xu (Livermore, Calif.), Paul X. Wang (Cupertino, Calif.) and Robert J. Lockwood (San Carlos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A force input/haptic output interface for an electronic device can include a force input sensor and a haptic actuator. In one example, the force input sensor and the haptic actuator are accommodated on a frame positioned below an inp...