US Patent Issued to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON on July 7 for "Haptic profiles for electronic devices" (Swedish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,675,165, issued on July 7, was assigned to TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET LM ERICSSON (PUBL) (Stockholm).

"Haptic profiles for electronic devices" was invented by Fredrik Dahlgren (Lund, Sweden), Alexander Hunt (Tygelsjo, Sweden), Andreas Kristensson (Sodra Sandby, Sweden) and Sara Thorson (Stockholm).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic apparatus (200a) comprising: -an interactive area (201a-c) configured to provide one or more functions of the electronic apparatus (200a); -a sensing unit (202) configured to sense a touch and/or a proximity of an object (203) interacting with the interactive area (201a-c); -a response unit (204) configured t...