ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,568,338, issued on March 3, was assigned to FLORA INNOVATIONS INC. (Dover, Del.).

"Piezoelectric transducer providing haptic feedback" was invented by Tung Thanh Nguyen (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A piezoelectric transducer is disclosed for providing haptic feedback. The transducer has a stacked structure including a protective layer, a piezoelectric layer, two electrodes positioned on the top and bottom of the piezoelectric layer, an adhesive layer positioned over the piezoelectric layer, and a substrate layer positioned on top of the adhesive layer. The transducer is cured using an autoclave process giving it a cur...