US Patent Issued to Taction Technology on Aug. 4 for "Haptic wrist rest" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,785, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to Taction Technology Inc. (Los Gatos, Calif.).

"Haptic wrist rest" was invented by Silmon James Biggs (San Diego) and John Douglas Steinberg (Millbrae, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A haptic wrist rest is disclosed. The haptic wrist rest includes a tactile transducer, a wrist rest tray, and a plurality of torsion rollers that permit the wrist rest tray to move primarily along a single axis and provide a restoring force as the torsion rollers store energy by twisting in response to that motion. In some embodiments, the torsion rollers comprise a cylindrical inner portion and a hollow resilie...