US Patent Issued to Sensel on March 18 for "Simulation of a physical interface utilizing touch tracking, force sensing, and haptic feedback" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,135, issued on March 18, was assigned to Sensel Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

"Simulation of a physical interface utilizing touch tracking, force sensing, and haptic feedback" was invented by Vijay Rajanna (San Jose, Calif.), Darren Lochun (Mountain View, Calif.), Ilya Daniel Rosenberg (Mountain View, Calif.) and Tomer Moscovich (San Francisco).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Simulation of a physical interface utilizing touch tracking, force sensing, and haptic feedback is presented herein. A system tracks, via a touch sensing device of a tactile sensor of the system, a movement of a finger across the tactile sensor; in response to a loca...