ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,403, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Continuous tactile feedback for electronic devices" was invented by Francois Robert Hogan (St-Jean-Sur-Richelieu, Canada), Trevor Ablett (Toronto), Xue Liu (Montreal), Gregory Lewis Dudek (Westmount, Canada) and Amal Feriani (Winnipeg, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method performed by an electronic device, includes: obtaining an image of a set of markers; based on the image, detecting an arrangement of the set of markers; based on the arrangement of the set of markers, performing a measurement about a deformation of the set of mar...