Patents

Systems and Methods for Integrating Environmental Haptics in Virtual Reality
Simon Forest, Razmik Mousakhanian, Liwen Wu, Vincent Levesque, Channy Uon
US Patent 11,294,467, filed December 18, 2018, issued April 5, 2022.

Method and System for the Detection and Augmentation of Tactile Interactions in Augmented Reality
Vincent Lévesque
US Patent 10,969,874, filed March 16, 2018, issued April 6, 2021.

Systems and Methods for Providing Haptic Feedback for Remote Interactions
Vincent Lévesque, Ali Modarres, Danny Grant, Jean Francois Dionne, David Birnbaum
US Patent 10,613,627, filed May 12, 2014, issued April 7, 2020.

Local Haptic Actuation System
Vahid Khoshkava, Juan Manuel Cruz Hernandez, Vincent Levesque
US Patent 10,584,689, filed September 2, 2016, issued March 10, 2020.

Handheld Interface Device Having a Plurality of Electrostatic Friction (ESF) Electrodes
Vincent Lévesque, Mohammadreza Motamedi
US Patent 10,534,435, filed November 18, 2016, issued January 14, 2020.

Mobile Device with Instinctive Alerts
David Birnbaum, Vincent Lévesque, Danny Grant
US Patent 10,504,339, filed February 21, 2013, issued December 10, 2019.

Usable Hidden Controls with Haptic Feedback
Vincent Lévesque
US Patent 10,359,857, filed July 18, 2013, issued July 23, 2019.

Haptic Implants
Vincent Levesque, David M. Birnbaum, Benoit Paul Belley, Jamal Saboune, Abdelwahab Hamam, Ravikumar Patel, Christopher Ullrich, Mohammadreza Motamedi, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez
US Patent 10,327,974, filed August 2, 2017, issued June 25, 2019.

Systems and Methods for Providing Electrostatic Haptic Effects via a Wearable or Handheld Device
Vincent Lévesque, Jamal Saboune, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez
US Patent 10,261,586, filed October 11, 2016, issued April 16, 2019.

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.

Compensated Haptic Rendering for Flexible Electronic Devices
Vincent Levesque, Ali Modarres, William S. Rihn
US Patent 10,234,945, filed September 9, 2016, issued March 19, 2019.

Haptic delivery cluster for providing a haptic effect
Vincent Levesque, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Vahid Khoshkava
US Patent 10,235,849, filed December 22, 2017, issued March 19, 2019.

Delivery Of Haptics To Select Recipients Of A Message
Liwen Wu, Henry Da Costa, Changyu Yang, Vincent Levesque, Hua Yu, David M. Birnbaum, Christopher Ullrich
US Patent 10,200,332, filed December 14, 2015, issued February 5, 2019.

Haptic Feedback for Opportunistic Displays
Vincent Lévesque
US Patent 10,198,072, filed June 8, 2016, issued February 5, 2019.

Systems And Methods For Location-Based Notifications For Shopping Assistance
Vincent Lévesque, Alex Zhu, Eric Gervais, Fengtian An, Johnny Maalouf, Eric Lajeunesse
US Patent 10,185,986, filed September 11, 2015, issued January 22, 2019.

Haptically Enabled Flexible Devices
Vincent Lévesque
US Patent 10,152,125, filed November 20, 2015, issued December 11, 2018.

Wearable Article Having An Actuator That Performs Non-Haptic And Haptic Operations
Vincent Levesque, Vahid Khoshkava
US Patent 10,102,722, filed December 18, 2015, issued October 16, 2018.

Systems and Methods for Providing Haptic Feedback via a Case
Vincent Lévesque, Danny Grant, Razmik Mousakhanian, Andry Rabemiarisoa, Gor Isajanyan, Alex Zhu
US Patent 10,095,311, filed June 15, 2016, issued October 9, 2018.

Deformable Haptic Wearables with Variable Physical Properties
Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Jamal Saboune, Abdelwahab Hamam, Vincent Levesque
US Patent 10,082,872, filed December 30, 2014, issued September 25, 2018.

Method and Apparatus for Providing Haptic Cues for Guidance and Alignment with Electrostatic Friction
Vincent Lévesque, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez
US Patent 10,078,384, filed March 1, 2013, issued September 18, 2018.

Systems and Methods for Haptic Fiddling
Danny Grant, Vincent Lévesque, Amaya Weddle, David Birnbaum, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hermandez, Jamal Saboune
US Patent 10,037,081, filed August 27, 2013, issued July 31, 2018.

Wearable Device with Flexibly Mounted Haptic Output Device
Danny Grant, Vincent Lévesque, Elena Redelsheimer, Daniel Gregory Parker
US Patent 10,032,345, filed April 2, 2014, issued July 24, 2018.

Systems and Methods for Force-Based Object Manipulation and Haptic Sensations
Vincent Lévesque, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Danny Grant, Jamal Saboune, Liwen Wu, Kurt Eerik Stahlberg, Abdelwahab Hamam
US Patent 10,031,583, filed March 19, 2015, issued July 24, 2018.

Systems And Methods For Providing Haptic Effects In Response To Deformation Of A Cover For An Electronic Device
Vincent Lévesque, Jamal Saboune, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Abdelwahab Hamam, Vahid Khoshkava, Liwen Wu
US Patent 10,013,060, filed September 18, 2015, issued July 3, 2018.

Systems and Methods for Position-Based Haptic Effects
Vahid Khoshkava, Vincent Lévesque, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Mansoor Alghooneh, William Rihn
US Patent 9,990,078, filed December 11, 2015, issued June 5, 2018.

Haptic CAPTCHA
Vincent Lévesque
US Patent 9,990,040, filed September 25, 2015, issued June 5, 2018.

Systems And Methods For Monitoring Insulation Integrity For Electrostatic Friction
Kaniyalal Shah,  Vincent Lévesque
US Patent 9,983,675, filed June 10, 2016, issued May 29, 2018.

Systems and Methods for a Haptically-Enabled Projected User Interface
Vincent Lévesque, Ali Modarres, Amaya Weddle, David Birnbaum
US Patent 9,965,034, filed December 30, 2013, issued May 8, 2018.

System and Method for a Haptically-Enabled Deformable Surface
Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Danny Grant, Vincent Lévesque, Ali Modarres
US Patent 9,939,900, filed March 21, 2014, issued April 10, 2018.

Method and apparatus for controlling generation of electrostatic friction effects for a plurality of electrodes
Vincent Levesque, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Mohammadreza Motamedi, Kaniyalal Shah, Ali Modarres
US Patent 9,928,700, filed January 25, 2017, issued March 27, 2018.

Externally-Activated Haptic Devices And Systems
Vincent Levesque, David M. Birnbaum, Benoit Belley, Jamal Saboune, Vahid Khoshkava, Simon Forest, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez
US Patent 9,928,696, filed December 30, 2015, issued March 27, 2018.

Systems and Methods for Deformation and Haptic Effects
Vincent Lévesque, Abdelwahab Hamam, Danny A. Grant
US Patent 9,921,609, filed August 2, 2016, issued March 20, 2018.

Systems and Methods for Haptically-Enabled Curved Devices
Vincent Lévesque, Danny Grant, Ali Modarres, Jamal Saboune
US Patent 9,921,650, filed March 19, 2015, issued March 20, 2018.

Selective Control Of An Electric Field To Deliver A Touchless Haptic Effect
Vincent Lévesque, Vahid Khoshkava
US Patent 9,898,904, filed August 17, 2016, issued February 20, 2018.

Systems and Methods for Haptic Surface Elements
Vahid Khoshkava, Vincent Lévesque, Jamal Saboune, Abdelwahab Hamam, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Liwen Wu
US Patent 9,898,903, filed March 7, 2016, issued February 20, 2018.

Systems and Methods for Closed-Loop Control for Haptic Feedback
Vincent Lévesque
US Patent 9,886,829, filed June 20, 2016, issued February 6, 2018.

Automated Haptic Setting Generation
Vincent Lévesque
US Patent 9,880,627, filed December 15, 2015, issued January 30, 2018.

Friction Modulation for Three Dimensional Relief in a Haptic Device
Robert Lacroix, Vincent Lévesque
US Patent 9,880,623, filed March 11, 2013, issued January 30, 2018.

Haptic Effects Conflict Avoidance
Vincent Lévesque
US Patent 9,881,467, filed February 22, 2016, issued January 30, 2018.

Systems and Methods for Multifunction Haptic Output Devices
Vahid Khoshkava, Vincent Levesque, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez
US Patent 9,875,625, filed December 18, 2015, issued January 23, 2018.

Systems and Methods for Enhanced Television Interaction
Danny Grant, Pamela Pimentel, Eric Gervais, Vincent Lévesque, Aaron Kapelus, Mina Chang, Daniel Parker, David Birnbaum, Li Jiang, Stephen Rank
US Patent 9,866,924, filed March 14, 2013, issued January 9, 2018.

Systems and Methods for Haptically-Enabled Holders
Vincent Levesque, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Abdelwahab Hamam
US Patent 9,851,805, filed December 24, 2014, issued December 26, 2017.

System and Method For Feedforward and Feedback With Haptic Effects
Vincent Lévesque, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez
US Patent 9,836,150, filed March 14, 2013, issued December 5, 2017.

Haptic Sensations as a Function of Eye Gaze
Danny Grant, Vincent Lévesque
US Patent 9,833,697, filed March 11, 2013, issued December 5, 2017.

Systems and Methods for Providing Enhanced Haptic Feedback
Vincent Levesque, Abdelwahab Hamam, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Vahid Khoskava
US Patent 9,763,628, filed December 31, 2014, issued September 19, 2017.

Haptic Functionality For Network Connected Devices
Vincent Lévesque, Abraham Alexander Dauhajre
US Patent 9,756,604, filed July 21, 2016, issued September 5, 2017.

Haptic Notification Manager
Vincent Lévesque, Danny Grant, Jean-Francois Blanchard-Dionne, Amaya Weddle, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez
US Patent 9,733,880, filed May 30, 2014, issued August 15, 2017.

Systems and Methods For Perceptual Normalization of Haptic Effects
Vincent Lévesque, Ali Modarres, Neil Olien, Danny Grant, Erin Ramsay, David Birnbaum, Amaya Weddle
US Patent 9,729,730, filed July 2, 2013, issued August 8, 2017.

Systems and Methods For Determining Haptic Effects For Multi-Touch Input
Vincent Lévesque, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez
US Patent 9,710,063, filed July 21, 2014, issued July 18, 2017.

Systems and Methods for Multi-Output Electrostatic Haptic Effects
Ali Modarres, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Christopher Ullrich, Danny Grant, Neil Olien, Vincent Lévesque
US Patent 9,696,806, filed July 2, 2014, issued July 4, 2017.

Crowd-Based Haptics
Eric Gervais, Shadi Asfour, Jamal Saboune, Amer Alhabi, Vincent Lévesque
US Patent 9,691,238, filed October 14, 2015, issued June 27, 2017.

Systems and Methods for Shape Input and Output for a Haptically-Enabled Deformable Surface
Vincent Lévesque, Danny Grant, Jamal Saboune, Abdelwahab Hamam, William Rihn
US Patent 9,690,381, filed August 21, 2014, issued June 27, 2017.

Systems and Methods for Viewport-Based Augmented Reality Haptic Effects
Vincent Lévesque, Danny Grant
US Patent 9,690,370, filed May 5, 2014, issued June 27, 2017.

Method and Apparatus of Body-Mediated Digital Content Transfer and Haptic Feedback
Vincent Lévesque, Ali Modarres, Amaya Weddle, David Birnbaum, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Henry Da Costa
US Patent 9,671,826, filed December 13, 2013, issued June 6, 2017.

Haptic Feedback In A Haptically Noisy Environment
Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Vincent Lévesque, Jamal Saboune, Danny Grant, Robert Lacroix, Abdelwahab Hamam
US Patent 9,659,468, filed September 16, 2015, issued May 23, 2017.

Systems and Methods for Haptically-Enabled Interactions with Objects
Vincent Levesque, Wei Zhu, Eric Gervais, Fengtian An, Eric Lajeunesse, Johnny Maalouf
US Patent 9,658,693, filed December 19, 2014, issued May 23, 2017.

Method and System For Providing Haptic Effects Based on Information Complementary to Multimedia Content
Vincent Lévesque, Ali Modarres, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Jamal Saboune
US Patent 9,652,945, filed December 31, 2013, issued May 16, 2017.

Systems and Methods for Haptic Feedback for Modular Devices
Vincent Lévesque
US Patent 9,645,647, filed May 13, 2015, issued May 9, 2017.

Mobile Device with Motion Controlling Haptics
William Rihn, David Birnbaum, Yiting Wang, Vincent Lévesque, Danny Grant
US Patent 9,645,643, filed June 17, 2014, issued May 9, 2017.

Systems and Methods for Generating Friction and Vibrotactile Effects
Vincent Lévesque, Ali Modarres, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Amaya Weddle, David Birnbaum, Danny Grant
US Patent 9,639,158, filed November 26, 2013, issued May 2, 2017.

Systems and Methods for Generating Haptic Effects Associated With Audio Signals
Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Jamal Saboune, Vincent Lévesque, Ali Modarres
US Patent 9,619,980, filed November 12, 2013, issued April 11, 2017.

Haptically-Enabled Deformable Device with Rigid Component
Vincent Levesque, Danny Grant, Yiting Wang
US Patent 9,606,625, filed October 13, 2014, issued March 28, 2017.

Systems and Methods to Generate Haptic Feedback for Skin-Mediated Interactions
Vincent Lévesque, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez
US Patent 9,600,083, filed July 15, 2014, issued March 21, 2017.

Systems and Methods for Object Manipulation with Haptic Feedback
Vincent Levesque, Wei Zhu, Eric Gervais, Fengtian An, Eric Lajeunesse, Johnny Maalouf
US Patent 9,600,076, filed December 19, 2014, issued March 21, 2017.

Systems and Methods for Deformation-Based Haptic Effects
Vincent Levesque, Danny Grant, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Ali Modarres, William Rihn
US Patent 9,535,550, filed November 25, 2014, issued January 3, 2017.

Systems and Methods for Providing Haptic Notifications
Vincent Lévesque, David Birnbaum, Amaya Weddle, Robert Lacroix, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Danny Grant, Neil Olien, Erin Ramsay, Ali Modarres
US Patent 9,529,435, filed December 30, 2014, issued December 27, 2016.

Haptic Feedback for Interactions with Foldable-Bendable Displays
Ali Modarres, Vincent Lévesque, Danny Grant, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez
US Patent 9,524,030, filed March 21, 2014, issued December 20, 2016.

Contactor-Based Haptic Feedback Generation
Vincent Lévesque
US Patent 9,436,282, filed March 14, 2013, issued September 6, 2016.

Simulation of Tangible User Interface Interactions and Gestures Using Array of Haptic Cells
Ali Modarres, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Danny Grant, Vincent Lévesque
US Patent 9,405,369, filed April 25, 2014, issued August 2, 2016.

Method and Apparatus of Converting Control Tracks for Providing Haptic Feedback
Vincent Lévesque, Jamal Saboune, David Birnbaum
US Patent 9,401,079, filed August 29, 2014, issued July 26, 2016.

System and Method for Simulated Physical Interactions With Haptic Effects
Vincent Lévesque, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Amaya Weddle, David Birnbaum
US Patent 9,330,544, filed March 14, 2013, issued May 3, 2016.

Automatic Haptic Effect Adjustment System
Vincent Lévesque
US Patent 9,202,352, filed March 11, 2013, issued December 1, 2015.

Systems and Methods For Haptics In Vibrating Environments and Devices
Vincent Lévesque, Amaya Weddle
US Patent 9,202,351, filed March 11, 2013, issued December 1, 2015.

Method and Apparatus for Simulating Surface Features on a User Interface with Haptic Effects
Vincent Lévesque, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez
US Patent 9,196,134, filed October 31, 2012, issued November 24, 2015.

User Interface Device Provided with Surface Haptic Sensations
Danny Grant, Vincent Lévesque
US Patent 9,041,647, filed March 15, 2013, issued May 26, 2015.

Apparatus to Reproduce Tactile Sensations
Vincent Hayward, Jerome Pasquero, Vincent Lévesque
US Patent 7,077,015, filed May 29, 2003, issued July 18, 2006.

Multi-Stable Haptic Feedback Systems
Mohammadreza Motamedi,  Mansoor Alghooneh,  Vahid Khoshkava, Vincent Levesque,  Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez,  Jamal Saboune
US Patent Application 15/476,056, filed March 31, 2017, pending.

Control of Contact Conditions for Static ESF
Vincent Lévesque, Mansoor Alghooneh, Jamal Saboune, Vahid Khoshkava, Mohammadreza Motamedi, Danny A. Grant, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Liwen Wu
US Patent Application 15/354,148, filed November 17, 2016, pending.

Haptic Effects Based On Predicted Contact
Vincent Lévesque, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Abdelwahab Hamam, Vahid Khoshkava
US Patent Application 14/717,393, filed May 20, 2015, pending.

Systems And Methods For Tactile Guidance
Abdelwahab Hamam, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Liwen Wu, Jamal Saboune, Vincent Lévesque, Robert Lacroix, Danny Grant
US Patent Application 14/697,680, filed April 28, 2015, pending.

Friction Augmented Controls and Method to Convert Buttons of Touch Control Panels to Friction Augmented Controls
Vincent Lévesque, Neil Olien, Christopher Ullrich, David Birnbaum, Amaya Weddle
US Patent Application 14/585,898, filed December 30, 2014, pending.

Systems and Methods for Recording and Playing Back Point-of-View Videos with Haptic Content
Vincent Lévesque, Jamal Saboune, David Birnbaum
US Patent Application 14/585,752, filed December 30, 2014, pending.

Systems and Methods for Generating Haptic Effects Based on Eye Tracking
Vincent Levesque, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Abraham Dauhajre, Paige Raynes, Satvir Singh Bhatia
US Patent Application 14/584,098, filed December 29, 2014, pending.

Systems and Methods For Providing Mode or State Awareness With Programmable Surface Texture
Vincent Lévesque, David Birnbaum, Juan Manuel Cruz-Hernandez, Amaya Weddle
US Patent Application 13/830,125, filed March 14, 2013, pending.