US Patent Issued to Sony Interactive Entertainment on Nov. 3 for "Auto haptics" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,779,324, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Sony Interactive Entertainment Inc. (Tokyo).

"Auto haptics" was invented by Richard Olabode (San Mateo, Calif.), Pritpal Panesar (San Mateo, Calif.) and Lakshmish Kaushik (San Mateo, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A machine learning (ML) model is used to automatically generate haptics signals to actuate a haptics generator in a computer game controller. The haptics signal is generated based on audio from the game input to the ML model. Current controller operation and other parameters also may be input to the M model to modify the haptics signal. Category importance and frequency may be ap...