ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,494,114, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Technische Universitat Munchen (Munich).

"Encoding device and encoding method for multichannel encoding of vibrotactile signals and decoding and decoding method" was invented by Andreas Noll (Munich), Lars Andreas Nockenberg (Munich) and Eckehard Steinbach (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Encoding device for encoding vibrotactile multichannel signals, includes an encoder input module configured to receive a multichannel signal; a transform module adapted to execute a discrete wavelet transform of each channel of the multichannel signal and to generate a respective frequency range representa...