ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,330, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Sendai, Japan).

"Vibration distribution control device, vibration distribution control program, and vibration distribution control method" was invented by Masashi Konyo (Sendai, Japan), Takuma Inagaki (Sendai, Japan), Daiki Kikuchi (Sendai, Japan), Kosuke Yamaguchi (Sendai, Japan) and Satoshi Tadokoro (Sendai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vibration distribution control device configured to generate a vibration source being present at a predetermined position by using a plurality of vibrators includes: a calculator configured to calculate a perceived intensity from a...