US Patent Issued to Rolls-Royce on May 13 for "Haptic feedback system for virtual reality borescope inspection" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,298,491, issued on May 13, was assigned to Rolls-Royce plc (London).

"Haptic feedback system for virtual reality borescope inspection" was invented by Rory Williams (London), Joanna Tomlin (London), Matthew Calder (London), Aditya Banerjee (London), Daniel Matthew Gillians (London) and Benedick James Loudon von Bertele (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A borescope feedback system with haptic feedback includes a borescope cable, a containment device, a cable sensor that is configured to detect motion of the borescope cable and output cable sensor data indicative of the motion of the borescope cable, a feedback device that is configur...