US Patent Issued to TENCENT AMERICA on Oct. 7 for "Method and apparatus for frame-accurate haptics interchange file format" (California Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,437,617, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TENCENT AMERICA LLC (Palo Alto, Calif.).

"Method and apparatus for frame-accurate haptics interchange file format" was invented by Iraj Sodagar (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of signaling a haptic java script object notation (JSON) interchange file format (HJIF) file comprises processing the HJIF file into a binary file format for distribution in a bitstream, in which the HJIF file comprises a plurality of haptic channels, in which each haptic channel from the plurality of haptic channels is defined by a channel description that comprises a relative position parameter that s...