US Patent Issued to ULTRAHAPTICS IP on July 1 for "Method and apparatus for producing an acoustic field" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,345,838, issued on July 1, was assigned to ULTRAHAPTICS IP LTD (Bristol, Great Britain).

"Method and apparatus for producing an acoustic field" was invented by Thomas Andrew Carter (Bristol, Great Britain), Benjamin John Oliver Long (Bristol, Great Britain) and Sriram Subramanian (Bristol, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention concerns a method and apparatus for the modulation of an acoustic field for providing tactile sensations. A method of creating haptic feedback using ultrasound is provided. The method comprises the steps of generating a plurality of ultrasound waves with a common focal point using a phas...