US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Oct. 14 for "Method and apparatus for defining frames and timed referenced network abstraction layer (NALS) structure in haptics signals" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,445,675, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for defining frames and timed referenced network abstraction layer (NALS) structure in haptics signals" 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 bitstream comprising one or more haptic channels one or more moving picture experts group (MPEG) immersive haptics stream (MIHS) units may be obtained for the one or more haptic channels, with a MIHS unit including timing information for one or more ha...