US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Feb. 25 for "Tactile energy generation based on audio signal" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,718, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Tactile energy generation based on audio signal" was invented by Mark McCarthy (Ann Arbor, Mich.), John Marshall Dodson II (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Alexander Petniunas (Canton, Mich.), Alan Robert Dona (Huntington Woods, Mich.), Jason Konopa (Clawson, Mich.), Brian Schabel (Northville, Mich.) and Mark Lynn Clapper (Ann Arbor, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for generation of lower-frequency tactile energy (e.g., vibration) of a vehicle system based on audio signals. In one example, a method may include acquiring a...