ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,871, issued on June 23, was assigned to Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (Daejeon, South Korea).

"Device and method for providing haptics based on character motion, and storage medium storing instructions to perform method for providing haptics based on character motion" was invented by Sang Ho Yoon (Daejeon, South Korea) and Kyungeun Jung (Daejeon, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Proposed is a method for providing haptics based on character motion. The method may include obtaining skeleton data for motion of a character included in contents, and determining a dynamic point, a reference point, and a cente...