ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,136, issued on March 18, was assigned to CAMBRIDGE MECHATRONICS Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).
"Haptic button with SMA" was invented by David Kuan Wei Ooi (Cambridge, Great Britain), Peter Van Wyk (Cambridge, Great Britain), Joshua Carr (Cambridge, Great Britain), Thomas James Powell (Cambridge, Great Britain), Marc-Sebastian Scholz (Cambridge, Great Britain), Andreas Flouris (Cambridge, Great Britain), Andrew Benjamin Simpson Brown (Cambridge, Great Britain), Stephen Matthew Bunting (Cambridge, Great Britain), Dominic George Webber (Cambridge, Great Britain) and James Howarth (Cambridge, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office...