US Patent Issued to Purdue Research Foundation on Sept. 1 for "Navigational feedback device for the visually impaired" (American, German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,887, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Purdue Research Foundation (West Lafayette, Ind.).

"Navigational feedback device for the visually impaired" was invented by Ethan M. Brown (Bloomington, Ind.), Eric P. O'Keefe (West Lafayette, Ind.), Fernando Vega (West Lafayette, Ind.), Shyam K. Reddy (Bridgeville, Pa.) and Ivan Malov (Unterfoehring, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A wearable device worn by a user is disclosed which includes a plurality of input device interfaces each configured to receive input from a sensor coupled to a user, a controller configured to generate a two-dimensional map of the user's three-dimensional spa...