ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,906, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Cirque Corp. (Sandy, Utah).
"Haptic keyboard system" was invented by Ilya Daniel Rosenberg (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and John Aaron Zarraga (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a keyboard system includes: a substrate including an array of inductors; a tactile layer arranged over the substrate defining an array of key locations over the array of inductors; an array of magnetic elements, each arranged within the tactile layer at a key location configured to inductively couple to an adjacent inductor and configured to move relative to the adjacent inductor responsive to app...