ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,048, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ELECTRONICS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Display terminal, virtual tactile device, and virtual tactile system including thereof" was invented by Kang-Ho Park (Daejeon, South Korea), Yousung Kang (Daejeon, South Korea) and Hyung-Kun Lee (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A virtual tactile device is provided, which includes a display terminal and a wearable device that receives information about a position, a shape, and a physical property of an object displayed on the display screen, and the user's finger position. In one example, the wea...