ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,579, issued on July 14, was assigned to KOREA ADVANCED INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Haptic device providing localized haptic feedback and controlling method thereof" was invented by Ki-Uk Kyung (Daejeon, South Korea), Jihwan Park (Daejeon, South Korea) and Jaeseung Han (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a haptic device providing localized haptic feedback and a controlling method thereof, wherein the haptic device includes a display, a haptic driving unit arranged on one surface of the display or inside the display, a signal controller, wherein the haptic driving unit incl...