US Patent Issued to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory on Feb. 10 for "Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) tactile display" (Massachusetts Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,248, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) tactile display" was invented by Jonathan J. Bernstein (Medfield, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tactile human-user interface system provides a refreshable tactile display that communicates text and images. The system includes a processor and a set of transducers. The processor receives text and/or image input and defeatures any images in the input to produce a simplified image. The processor translates the input into tactile form, which it converts into a set of electrical signals asso...