US Patent Issued to CK MATERIALS LAB on March 18 for "Flexible tactile actuator" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,251,730, issued on March 18, was assigned to CK MATERIALS LAB Co. LTD. (Seoul, South Korea).

"Flexible tactile actuator" was invented by Hyeong Jun Kim (Seoul, South Korea), Myung Sun Park (Seoul, South Korea), Jong Hun Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Ji Goo Kang (Seoul, South Korea) and Nam Seok Kim (Seoul, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed is a flexible tactile actuator including a tactile transmitter configured to be flexible and including magnetic particles capable of being polarized in response to an external magnetic field and a matrix layer including the magnetic particles, a magnetic field generator disposed below t...