ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,095, issued on May 13, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Semantic framework for variable haptic output" was invented by Camille Moussette (San Francisco), Gary I. Butcher (Los Gatos, Calif.), Hugo D. Verweij (San Francisco) and Jonathan Ive (San Francisco).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device receives an input that corresponds to a first part of a multi-part operation performed by an application executing on the computing device. In response to receiving the input corresponding to the first part of the multi-part operation, the computing device initiates an ongoing haptic output sequence. After initiating t...