ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,380,776, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Information processing device for mixing haptic signals" was invented by Ryo Yokoyama (Tokyo), Yusuke Nakagawa (Tokyo) and Ikuo Yamano (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A haptic signal can be generated using an intermediate state of a plurality of generation algorithms. A plurality of haptic signal generation units that generates haptic signals using generation algorithms different from each other on the basis of a sound signal by the plurality of haptic signal generation units is included. A mixing unit mixes haptic signals generated by at least two of the pluralit...