US Patent Issued to BHAPTICS on Jan. 28 for "System for modifying and providing tactile stimulation" (South Korean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,210,686, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to BHAPTICS INC. (South Korea).

"System for modifying and providing tactile stimulation" was invented by Ki Uk Gwak (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tactile stimulation providing system includes: a tactile stimulation pattern generating apparatus for generating a tactile stimulation pattern through a user interface including a plurality of virtual actuators to which positions of a plurality of actuators are mapped; and a tactile stimulation providing apparatus including the plurality of actuators, the tactile stimulation providing apparatus driving the plurality of actuators ...