US Patent Issued to Adeia Guides on Jan. 27 for "Contact or contactless interface with temperature haptic feedback" (Georgia, Florida, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,535,889, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to Adeia Guides Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Contact or contactless interface with temperature haptic feedback" was invented by Charles Dasher (Lawrenceville, Ga.), Evgeny Kaminsky (Hallandale Beach, Fla.) and Jean-Yves Couleaud (Mission Viejo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Described are devices that provide thermal haptic feedback. A touchpad, touchscreen or other such device may receive an indication of an adjustment at a first portion of a touch user interface, and in response, determine a temperature setting based on the adjustment. Voltage supplied to a matrix of temperature actuating el...