ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,784,556, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to TDK Corp. (Tokyo).

"Auditory tactile sense presentation device and auditory tactile sense presentation method" was invented by Takashi Kato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An auditory tactile sense presentation device includes: a reception unit configured to receive an input of a drive signal; and an output unit configured to perform an output based on the drive signal, in which the output unit is configured by a vibrator including a piezoelectric element, and the vibrator outputs, in the drive signal, a signal component having a frequency higher than a predetermined frequency as audio and ...