US Patent Issued to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE on June 17 for "Virtual tactile stimulation device and method for matching nerve stimulation pattern and virtual space object having impedance" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,076, issued on June 17, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Virtual tactile stimulation device and method for matching nerve stimulation pattern and virtual space object having impedance" was invented by Sung Q Lee (Daejeon, South Korea), Kang Ho Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and You Sung Kang (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a tactile emotion recognition method and device, and is directed to assigning an impedance value to each object in a virtual space; inducing virtual force using displacement between the object and a use...