US Patent Issued to Ford Global Technologies on Sept. 22 for "Tactile energy generation based on vehicle signals" (Michigan Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,589, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Ford Global Technologies LLC (Dearborn, Mich.).

"Tactile energy generation based on vehicle signals" was invented by Mark McCarthy (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Alexander Petniunas (Canton, Mich.), Jason Konopa (Clawson, Mich.), John Marshall Dodson II (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Mark Lynn Clapper (Ann Arbor, Mich.), Brian Zellers (Farmington Hills, Mich.), Alan Robert Dona (Huntington Woods, Mich.) and Jonathan Hair (Northville, Mich.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and systems are provided for generation of lower-frequency tactile energy (e.g., vibration) of a vehicle system based on different signals...