ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,499,743, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Alps Alpine Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Signal processing for haptic seating systems" was invented by Ryosuke Tachi (Rochester Hills, Mich.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A haptic seating system comprising can include a seat, a haptic device, and a haptic signal controller. The system can receive an acoustic signal and generate a haptic source signal. The system can convert the haptic source signal into first and second constituent haptic signals and modify, using a frequency expander, the first and second constituent haptic signals into first and second expanded constituent haptic signals with modified...