ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,699,456, issued on Aug. 4.
"Tactile representation of location characteristics and content in 3D" was invented by Amir Amedi (Modiin-Macabim-Reut, Israel), Adi Snir (Tel Aviv, Israel), Iddo Wald (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Katarzyna Ciesla (Tel Aviv, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for providing location information of an object through touch via differentiation in stimuli between a plurality of somatosensory input points, the method comprising: receiving, by a processor, a spatial position of an object emitting said information; assigning, by the processor, for each of the plurality of somatosensory input points at least one of...