ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,503, issued on March 3, was assigned to InterDigital CE Patent Holdings SAS (Paris).

"Representation format for haptic object" was invented by Fabien Danieau (Rennes, France), Quentin Galvane (Thorigne-Fouillard, France) and Philippe Guillotel (Vern sur Seiche, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A haptic rendering device and corresponding rendering method allow to render a haptic effect defined in a haptic signal comprising information representative of an immersive scene description. The immersive scene comprises information representative of at least one element of the scene and information representative of a haptic object, com...