US Patent Issued to TDK Electronics on Aug. 5 for "Pen-shaped input and/or output device and method for generating a haptic signal" (Austrian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,782, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to TDK Electronics AG (Munich).

"Pen-shaped input and/or output device and method for generating a haptic signal" was invented by Georg Kugerl (Eibiswald, Austria), Harald Kastl (Bad Gams, Austria), Gunter Aflenzer (Premstatten, Austria) and Roman Puchleitner (St. Stefan, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pen-shaped input and/or output device and a method for generating a haptic signal are disclosed. In an embodiment a device includes an actuator unit comprising a piezoelectric actuator, wherein the device is a pen-shaped input and/or output device, and wherein the pen-shaped input and/or out...