US Patent Issued to SOCIETE BIC on May 13 for "Writing instrument and method" (Swiss Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,777, issued on May 13, was assigned to SOCIETE BIC (Clichy, France).

"Writing instrument and method" was invented by David Duffy (Zurich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer implemented method for computing a plurality of virtual texture waveform definitions, comprising: obtaining first texture data at least partially characterising a texture of an existing writing surface, obtaining second texture data at least partially characterising an intended texture experienced by a user when the haptic writing instrument when writing on the existing writing surface, generating virtual texture data by modifying the first texture data base...