US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 16 for "Touch-sensitive input device with haptic feedback mechanism" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,984, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Touch-sensitive input device with haptic feedback mechanism" was invented by Shoham Dekel (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Assaf Bar-Ness (Ness Zionna, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples are disclosed that relate to applying haptic output to a touch-sensitive input device. One example provides a touch-sensitive input device comprising a body, a haptic feedback mechanism within the body, a sensor subsystem, a logic processor, and a memory. The memory stores instructions executable by the processor to receive from the sensor subsystem sens...