ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,599,837, issued on April 14, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

"Signal generation device, signal generation method, and program" was invented by Yosuke Iizuka (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique is provided to present more intuitive settings of a haptic sensation. In particular, a signal generation device is provided that includes an input unit to accept setting information including information indicative of the direction of the haptic sensation to be presented by a target object; and a generation unit that generates a waveform signal for presenting the haptic sensation based o...