US Patent Issued to INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR on April 8 for "Tactile smart watch for visually impaired" (Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,271,527, issued on April 8, was assigned to INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR (India).

"Tactile smart watch for visually impaired" was invented by Vishwaraj Srivastava (Kanpur, India) and Siddhartha Panda (Kanpur, India).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A haptic tactile smart watch for the visually impaired is provided. The tactile smart watch comprises a watch case having a tactile digital interface. One or more tactile push buttons are configured on an outer circumference of the watch case. The one or more tactile push buttons activate one or more functions associated with the tactile smart watch. One or more touch sensitive indicator...