ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,777, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to QUALCOMM Inc. (San Diego).

"Systems and methods for haptic feedback effects" was invented by An Chen (San Diego), Ajit Chourasia (San Diego) and Muhua Li (San Diego).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and techniques are described for processing media data and for providing haptic feedback that is customized based on the media data. A media system receives media content to be output using an output device according to media output settings associated with a media output software application. The media content can be associated with an environment that is at least partially generated by the soft...