US Patent Issued to SONY GROUP on Nov. 3 for "Tactile sense providing apparatus and tactile sense providing layer" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,555, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to SONY GROUP Corp. (Tokyo).

"Tactile sense providing apparatus and tactile sense providing layer" was invented by Akihito Nishiike (Tokyo), Takuya Yanagisawa (Tokyo), Masahiro Sato (Tokyo) and Masaki Orihashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a tactile sense providing apparatus includes a base member and a tactile sense providing layer. The base member includes a fluid-inlet-and-outlet opening. The tactile sense providing layer forms a space between the base member and the tactile sense providing layer, the space accommodating therein fluid that flows into and out of the space throu...