Granted Patent

Single actuator haptic effects

William Rihn, Mohammadreza Motamedi, Danny Grant, Neil Olien, Vincent Levesque, Jamal Saboune

US Patent 10,241,577, filed August 1, 2017, issued March 26, 2019.

Abstract

A haptic enabled device that is configured to render one or more haptic effects is provided. The haptic enabled device includes an actuator and a plurality of user input elements. Each of the plurality of user input elements is configured to be selectively coupled to the actuator. In addition, the actuator is configured to be positioned to render the one or more haptic effects at each of the plurality of user input elements.