US Patent Issued to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona on June 10 for "Converting spatial information to haptic and auditory feedback" (Arizona, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,411, issued on June 10, was assigned to Arizona Board of Regents on Behalf of the University of Arizona (Tucson, Ariz.).

"Converting spatial information to haptic and auditory feedback" was invented by Kavan Hazeli (Tucson, Ariz.), Bahram Jalali (Los Angeles) and Janet Roveda (Tucson, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A life-assisting system to enhance the quality of life for people with visual impairment. The system integrates state-of-the-art sensing and sensory stimulation with light detection and ranging (LiDAR), machine learning, and advanced haptic navigation to provide the visually impaired population with a real-time hapti...