ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,732,743, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Combined audio and haptic actuator assembly" was invented by Jianxun Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Debanjan Mukherjee (San Jose, Calif.), Che-Yuan Hsu (Taipei city, Taiwan), Zhi Qiang Li (Suzhou, China) and Michael Kai Morishita (Belmont, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Actuator assemblies, and electronic devices and wearable devices including actuator assemblies, are disclosed. An actuator assembly includes: a first housing enclosing an audio actuator and a first open volume; and a second housing enclosing a haptic actuator and a second open volume. The f...