ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,249,234, issued on March 11, was assigned to THUMP INC. (Atlanta).

"Systems, devises, and methods including a heartbeat mimetic" was invented by Fernando Juan Hernandez (Atlanta).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, devices, and methods are described for providing, among other things, a device including a heartbeat mimetic unit configured to generate an acoustic stimulus that mimics a heartbeat. In an embodiment, the device includes a warm-touch unit configured to generate a thermal stimulus. In an embodiment, the device includes a controller unit operably coupled to the heartbeat mimetic unit and the warm touch unit, the controller u...