US Patent Issued to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY on Feb. 24 for "Soft haptic device and method of local control therein" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,658, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Soft haptic device and method of local control therein" was invented by Ki-Uk Kyung (Daejeon, South Korea), Seung-Yeon Jang (Daejeon, South Korea), Hyunwoo Kim (Daejeon, South Korea), Minjae Cho (Daejeon, South Korea) and Minki Kim (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A soft haptic device and a local control method are disclosed. The soft haptic device includes a soft actuator. The soft actuator includes an electroactive polymer film, a patterned electrode, and a dielectric liquid injected between the el...