US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Feb. 3 for "Methods and systems for providing haptic feedback" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,539,460, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Methods and systems for providing haptic feedback" was invented by Alan Murphy (London) and Danjeli Schembri (London).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to the present invention there is provided an apparatus for providing haptic feedback to accompany media content delivered by a media device, the apparatus comprising: a detection module, configured to determine a haptic capability associated with the apparatus; a receiving module, configured to receive, from the media device, media data associated with the media content; a haptics generation mod...