US Patent Issued to SOCIETE BIC on Aug. 26 for "Writing instruments with integrated data handling and haptic feedback subsystems" (British, Swiss Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,579, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to SOCIETE BIC (Clichy, France).

"Writing instruments with integrated data handling and haptic feedback subsystems" was invented by David Duffy (Zurich, Switzerland) and Bernadette Elliott-Bowman (Surrey, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A writing instrument comprises a body, a first data handling subsystem arranged in the body and configured to transmit and/or receive data, and a haptic feedback subsystem arranged in the body and configured to receive data from the first data handling subsystem. The haptic feedback subsystem is configured to provide a haptic feedback to a user based o...