US Patent Issued to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES on Sept. 30 for "Device for localized friction modulation via vibrations in a vibrating interface with a contact surface" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,952, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES (Paris).

"Device for localized friction modulation via vibrations in a vibrating interface with a contact surface" was invented by Ayoub Ben Dhiab (Gif-sur-Yvette, France) and Charles Hudin (Gif-sur-Yvette, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for local friction modulation via vibration includes a vibrating interface with a contact surface, a plurality of actuators with active surfaces that are arranged against this vibrating interface, designed to vibrate the vibrating interface in a transverse direction through the tra...