ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,373,033, issued on July 29, was assigned to ULTRAHAPTICS IP LTD (Bristol, Great Britain).
"Mid-air haptic textures" was invented by David Beattie (Bristol, Great Britain) and Rory Clark (Bristol, Great Britain).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described is a method for instilling the haptic dimension of texture to virtual and holographic objects using mid-air ultrasonic technology. A set of features is extracted from imported images using their associated displacement maps. Textural qualities such as the micro and macro roughness are then computed and fed to a haptic mapping function together with information about the dynamic motion of the...