US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on May 27 for "Computing device with haptic trackpad" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,475, issued on May 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Computing device with haptic trackpad" was invented by Eliyahu Barel (Rosh-HaAyin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device comprises a microphone, a trackpad, and a haptic actuator coupled to the trackpad. A memory stores instructions executable by a processor to drive the haptic actuator with a driving signal to generate a first trackpad sonic output. The first trackpad sonic output is measured using a signal from the microphone of the computing device. A sonic variance is determined by comparing the first trackpad sonic out...