US Patent Issued to Afference on Aug. 18 for "Wearable electronic device for inducing transient sensory events as user feedback" (Colorado, Illinois, Florida, Texas, Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,710,822, issued on Aug. 18, was assigned to Afference Inc. (Boulder, Colo.).

"Wearable electronic device for inducing transient sensory events as user feedback" was invented by Jacob Segil (Boulder, Colo.), Craig Field Sampson (Lake Bluff, Ill.), Dustin Tyler (Cleveland), Sergio Alonso Marquina (Clearwater, Fla.) and Nicholas Daniel Phillips-Tanchuico (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable electronic device includes an electrode array for transdermal stimulation of a sensory nerve that itself innervates a body part distal to a worn location of the wearable electronic device. The transdermal stimulation is configured to ...