US Patent Issued to Bang & Olufsen on July 15 for "Systems and methods for magnetic haptic feedback" (Singaporean Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,598, issued on July 15, was assigned to Bang & Olufsen A/S (Struer, Denmark).

"Systems and methods for magnetic haptic feedback" was invented by Tee Hock Ho (Singapore).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Various embodiments disclosed herein relate to a system and method whereby a haptic feedback mechanism may be integrated into a rotatable gear module such that rotating the module may generate pure mechanical haptic feedback. The gear module may be integrated into a wearable device, such as headphones, such that a set of magnets incorporated within may be aligned and misaligned with a plurality of teeth when the gear module rotates. In re...