{
  "patent_number": "US 10809804",
  "country": "US",
  "title": "How a Haptic Glove Makes You Feel Virtual Objects",
  "original_title": "Haptic feedback glove",
  "summary": "This patent describes a haptic feedback glove that uses small vibrating pads and pressure points on the fingertips and palm to create realistic sensations of touch with virtual objects in computer simulations.",
  "what_it_does": "The patent describes a haptic feedback glove designed to make virtual objects feel real. It includes a \"fingertip assembly\" (Claim 1) that can apply pressure to different parts of a user's finger, like the palm side, the left side (radial), the right side (ulnar), and even the very tip (distal). These pressures come from small devices called \"tactors\" (Claim 1). The glove also has a flexible \"palm\" section with multiple \"palm tactors\" (Claim 1) that can be controlled separately. For example, if you reach out in a virtual world and touch a cube, the glove could apply pressure to your fingertips and palm, and specific tactors could vibrate to simulate the texture of the cube. The system can also track the hand's position in 3D space (Claim 2) and even connect to a \"force-feedback exoskeleton\" (Claim 7) to make you feel resistance.",
  "what_it_does_not_cover": [
    "Haptic gloves that only provide vibration feedback without applying pressure to multiple surfaces of the finger.",
    "Gloves where the palm tactors cannot be controlled independently from each other.",
    "Haptic systems that do not include both fingertip assemblies with multi-surface tactors and palm assemblies with independently actuatable tactors.",
    "Gloves that only provide force feedback through an exoskeleton without integrated tactile feedback.",
    "Systems that do not track the hand's position in three-dimensional space."
  ],
  "filed": "2018-12-28",
  "granted": "2020-10-20",
  "expires": "2038-12-28",
  "status": "active",
  "holder": "HaptX",
  "holder_url": "https://patentbrief.org/company/haptx",
  "inventors": [
    {
      "name": "Paul Piller",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/paul-piller"
    },
    {
      "name": "Bodin L. Rojanachaichanin",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/bodin-l-rojanachaichanin"
    },
    {
      "name": "Kurt C. Sjoberg",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/kurt-c-sjoberg"
    },
    {
      "name": "Ryan M. Takatsuka",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/ryan-m-takatsuka"
    },
    {
      "name": "Nicholas J. Bonafede, JR.",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/nicholas-j-bonafede-jr"
    },
    {
      "name": "Marc Y. Goupil",
      "url": "https://patentbrief.org/inventor/marc-y-goupil"
    }
  ],
  "times_cited": 7,
  "tags": [
    "consumer_electronics",
    "software",
    "telecommunications",
    "ai_ml",
    "gaming"
  ],
  "abstract": "A haptic feedback glove may include an inner glove made of a flexible material, thimbles over each finger and thumb, and tendons coupled to each finger thimble. One or more actuators may be connected to each tendon, so that the tendons may be used to apply pressure to the fingers. Tactors in the finger thimbles and on palm panels may also be used to provide haptic feedback.",
  "url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/10809804/haptic-feedback-glove",
  "markdown_url": "https://patentbrief.org/patent/us/10809804/haptic-feedback-glove/md",
  "google_patents_url": "https://patents.google.com/patent/US10809804",
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}