US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on June 17 for "Control apparatus, control method, and control system for force-sense device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,078, issued on June 17, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Control apparatus, control method, and control system for force-sense device" was invented by Taha Moriyama (Tokyo) and Yusuke Nakagawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a control apparatus, a control method, and a system for a force-sense device that can apply a more natural haptic sensation. According to the present disclosure, a control apparatus for a force-sense device has a position information acquiring section for acquiring position information regarding a surface of a virtual object and position information regarding a fingertip, and a contro...