US Patent Issued to Synaptics on May 13 for "Input device having integrated haptics and near field communication antenna" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,203, issued on May 13, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Input device having integrated haptics and near field communication antenna" was invented by Patrick A. Worfolk (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input device is provided. The input device comprises a printed circuit board (PCB) assembly comprising: touch sensors configured to detect a user input from a user; a haptic coil configured to provide haptic feedback to the user in response to detecting the user input; and a near-field communication (NFC) antenna configured to facilitate NFC communications, wherein the haptic coil and the NFC antenn...