US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on March 17 for "Haptic device, control device for haptic device, and control method for haptic device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,798, issued on March 17, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Haptic device, control device for haptic device, and control method for haptic device" was invented by Masao Kondo (Tokyo) and Junichi Shimizu (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A haptic device includes an external grasp body that is positioned on an outside, formed as a grasp portion of an imaginary object, and grasped by an operator, a motion detection unit that is provided in the external grasp body to detect a motion of the external grasp body, and an internal drive body that is provided in the external grasp body, connected to the external grasp body, and mo...