US Patent Issued to TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION on June 24 for "Haptic feedback device and a method of controlling same" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,022, issued on June 24, was assigned to TECHNION RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION Ltd. (Haifa, Israel).

"Haptic feedback device and a method of controlling same" was invented by Alon Wolf (Haifa, Israel), Lihi Zelnik-Manor (Haifa, Israel), Yair Herbst (Haifa, Israel) and Yoni Chechik (Haifa, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A haptic feedback device is disclosed. The haptic feedback device may include at least one texture emulator; a housing at least partially containing the texture emulator; and a controller configured to: receive instructions to provide a texture sensation; and control the texture emulator to apply force to at...