ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,632, issued on March 11, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).
"Vibrational input elements" was invented by Chang Xiao (New York), Karl Bayer (New York), Shree K. Nayar (New York, Neb.) and Changxi Zheng (New York).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are provided that relate to vibrational input elements configured to provide inputs to control an application executed by a mobile computing device. The vibrational input elements may produce distinct vibration patterns that are detectable by a sensor of the mobile computing device. The respective vibration patterns may correspond to one or more actions that ma...