US Patent Issued to BIC Violex Single Member on Sept. 15 for "Writing instrument" (Greek Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,046, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to BIC Violex Single Member S.A. (Anoixi, Greece).

"Writing instrument" was invented by Ion-Ioannis Antonakis (Anoixi, Greece).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method for audio to tactile enhancement comprising obtaining audio data comprising a sample of speech, generating at least one haptic cue definition by performing a first signal processing operation on at least one portion of the audio data, and actuating a haptic actuator comprised in a user device or a writing instrument according to the at least one haptic cue definition. Examples concern obtaining a pulse signal re...