US Patent Issued to City University of Hong Kong on April 22 for "Wearable haptic devices for modulating perceived roughness of physical surfaces in real-time simulation in mixed reality environments" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,600, issued on April 22, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Wearable haptic devices for modulating perceived roughness of physical surfaces in real-time simulation in mixed reality environments" was invented by Kening Zhu (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Xinge Yu (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Shaoyu Cai (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Haichen Gao (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Qi Zhang (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable haptic modulation device for real-time simulation of texture properties of a material surface in mixed reality environments is provided. Particularly, it includes a U-shaped pneumat...