US Patent Issued to City University of Hong Kong, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University on Sept. 1 for "Haptic apparatus for stimulating users' skin" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,721,997, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong) and The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (Hong Kong).

"Haptic apparatus for stimulating users' skin" was invented by Xinge Yu (Hong Kong), Zijian Zheng (Hong Kong), Kuanming Yao (Hong Kong), Qiuna Zhuang (Hong Kong), Qiang Zhang (Hong Kong) and Jingkun Zhou (Hong Kong).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A haptic apparatus is provided for stimulating a skin of a user to provide haptic feedback to the user. The haptic apparatus comprises an elastomeric substrate layer and multilayered electrical circuits comprising hydrogel electrodes for contacting the skin an...