US Patent Issued to WYVRN on Sept. 1 for "Method and apparatus of encoding/decoding haptic data" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,488, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to WYVRN (Lille, France).

"Method and apparatus of encoding/decoding haptic data" was invented by Eric Vezzoli (Lille, France), Alexandre Hulsken (Lille, France), Titouan Rabu (Lille, France), Victor Prudhomme (Lille, France) and Antoine Mariton (Lille, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and apparatus of encoding/decoding haptic signal representative of haptic effect. The haptic signal is encoded according to a hierarchical representation, which includes a plurality of layers, a different hierarchical level being associated with each layer. The encoding of the haptic signal comprises th...