ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,021, issued on May 6, was assigned to Beijing BOE Technology Development Co. Ltd. (Beijing) and BOE Technology Group Co. Ltd. (Beijing).

"Virtual haptic assembly and virtual haptic system" was invented by Yongchun Tao (Beijing), Yuju Chen (Beijing) and Yingzi Wang (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a virtual haptic assembly and a virtual haptic system. The virtual haptic assembly includes a display screen; an actuator on a light emitting side of the display screen, where the actuator includes a touch panel and a piezoelectric sensor, the touch panel includes a touch area and a non-touch area on at least one side of ...