ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,968, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method for embedding the haptics effects semantic in haptics streaming" was invented by Iraj Sodagar (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Method, apparatus, and system for haptic signal processing are provided. The process may include receiving a media stream comprising at least one haptic track and at least one video track. The process may include receiving a media stream, in a case that the data is in the haptics interchange format, obtaining a first syntax, from the media stream, and determining, from the first syntax, a scheme used for a sema...