US Patent Issued to Mateligent on Jan. 13 for "Audio-tactile transducer device based on dielectric electro-active elastomers" (German, Italian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,526,582, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Mateligent GmbH (Saarbrucken, Germany).

"Audio-tactile transducer device based on dielectric electro-active elastomers" was invented by Giacomo Moretti (Saarbrucken, Germany), Sebastian Gratz-Kelly (Saarbrucken, Germany), Marco Fontana (Leghorn, Italy), Paul Motzki (Saarbrucken, Germany), Gianluca Rizzello (Saarbrucken, Germany) and Stefan Seelecke (Saarbrucken, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention relates to a transducer device comprising: At least one dielectric electro-active membrane, an actuation element coupled with the at least one electro-active membrane so that ...