US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Dec. 23 for "Tactile presentation apparatus and tactile presentation system" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,504,823, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Tactile presentation apparatus and tactile presentation system" was invented by Kentaro Yoshida (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a tactile presentation apparatus that includes a contact portion, a peripheral portion, a retaining portion, a first driving portion, and a second driving portion. The contact portion includes a central portion and a connection portion. The first driving portion changes a height of the central portion from the retaining portion in a first direction in which the central portion gets away from the retaining portion and a...