US Patent Issued to TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS on Sept. 2 for "Tactile presentation device and control method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,405,670, issued on Sept. 2, was assigned to TIANMA MICROELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Shenzhen, China).

"Tactile presentation device and control method" was invented by Hiroshi Haga (Kanagawa, Japan) and Daisuke Sugimoto (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tactile presentation device comprising: a contact face; a plurality of electrodes arranged along the contact face; a first control unit controlling operations of the electrodes for detecting contact or approach of an object toward the 5 contact face; a second control unit controlling operations of the electrodes for presenting a tactile sense to the contact face; and a third cont...