ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,783,054, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to WYVRN (Lille, France).

"Method and apparatus of transmitting haptic data" was invented by Eric Vezzoli (Lille, France), Antoine Mariton (Lille, France) and Kah Yong Lee (Lille, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus of transmitting haptic data representative of a haptic effect are disclosed. Haptic device data representative of haptic rendering capabilities of a haptic rendering device is obtained. The haptic data is determined by processing received haptic data representative of the haptic effect according to the haptic device data to adapt a rendering of the haptic effect t...