US Patent Issued to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY on July 15 for "Tactile communication system, tactile communication device, tactile communication program, and tactile communication method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,603, issued on July 15, was assigned to TOHOKU UNIVERSITY (Sendai, Japan).

"Tactile communication system, tactile communication device, tactile communication program, and tactile communication method" was invented by Masashi Konyo (Sendai, Japan), Kosuke Yamaguchi (Sendai, Japan) and Satoshi Tadokoro (Sendai, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A tactile transmission system (100) including a tactile transmission device (3) and a different tactile transmission device (3) includes a vibration measurement unit (31) that measures a vibration generated at the tactile transmission device (3), a calculation unit that calculates perception ...