ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,996, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Systems, methods, and devices for haptic feedback" was invented by Rakesh Sethi (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An example wearable device includes a flexible substrate and a plurality of microfluidic devices attached to the flexible substrate, each microfluidic device of the plurality of microfluidic devices comprising an actuator configured to cause a displacement of a corresponding portion of the flexible substrate to which the microfluidic device is attached. The wearable device further includes a control module electrically coupled to the plurality of...