US Patent Issued to Haptych on July 21 for "Rendering fine detail surface geometry on an active surface haptic display" (California, Colorado, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,932, issued on July 21, was assigned to Haptych Corp. (San Carlos, Calif.).

"Rendering fine detail surface geometry on an active surface haptic display" was invented by Karthik Yogeeswaran (San Carlos, Calif.), Nicholas H. Patino (Boulder, Colo.) and Jessica Hartcher O'Brien (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and apparatuses for rendering fine detail surface geometry on an active surface haptic display. One system includes a haptic surface, a plurality of actuators and a plurality of channel decorrelator elements. Each actuator is configured to generate mechanical waves in the haptic surface through cont...