Patents

60 granted US patents across 37 inventions in haptics, all assigned to Immersion Corporation. Filed under William S. Rihn. Rubenstein is my birth surname, which I reverted to in 2019. Patents that issued after that still carry the filing name.

Counts are US grants. Continuations and divisionals are folded into the invention they belong to; equivalents filed in Europe, China, Japan, South Korea and India are listed inside each entry rather than counted separately.

Sole inventor

Virtual sensor in a virtual environment 2 patents · 2016–2018

Also filed as EP 3040807, 3531248 · KR 10-2016-0080064

Programmable haptic devices and methods for modifying haptic strength based on perspective and/or proximity 1 patent · 2017

Also filed as EP 2955608 · JP 2015232880 · KR 10-2015-0141151

Haptic trigger modification system 2 patents · 2019–2020

Also filed as EP 3021197, 3584681 · JP 2016095625, 2019053776 · KR 10-2016-0056750, 10-2019-0088938

Haptically enabled overlay for a pressure sensitive surface 1 patent · 2019

Also filed as CN 109416571 · EP 3449339 · WO 2017/222581

Systems and methods for distributing haptic effects to users interacting with user interfaces 3 patents · 2020

Also filed as CN 106155307 · EP 3093734, 3654144 · JP 2016219008

Rendering a haptic effect with intra-device mixing 1 patent · 2020

Also filed as CN 107735150 · EP 3297738 · WO 2017/214472

Co-inventor

Haptic spatialization system 3 patents · 2015–2019

Also filed as CN 104623897, 107519642 · EP 2873446, 3421108 · JP 2015111417, 2016197459, 2018055722, 2019185811 · KR 10-2017-0055464, 10-2019-0060737

Systems and methods for deformation-based haptic effects 3 patents · 2017–2019

Also filed as CN 105630156 · EP 3037945 · JP 2016119069 · KR 10-2016-0062698

Haptic actuators having programmable magnets with pre-programmed magnetic surfaces and patterns 1 patent · 2017

Also filed as CN 105718040 · EP 3037144 · JP 2016119088 · KR 10-2016-0076428

Haptic trigger control system 2 patents · 2017–2019

Also filed as CN 104635921 · EP 2873447, 3417920 · JP 2017195000, 2019040636 · KR 10-2018-0006481

Magnetic suspension system for touch screens and touch surfaces 1 patent · 2017

Also filed as CN 105718042 · EP 3037923 · KR 10-2016-0076429

Mobile device with motion controlling haptics 1 patent · 2017

Also filed as EP 2957989, 3528096 · JP 2016028467 · KR 10-2015-0144702

Systems and methods for shape input and output for a haptically-enabled deformable surface 3 patents · 2017–2019

Also filed as EP 2988200, 3525077 · JP 2016045959 · KR 10-2016-0023570

Haptic devices and methods for providing haptic effects via audio tracks 2 patents · 2017–2018

Also filed as EP 2955609 · JP 2016001472 · KR 10-2015-0141156

Programmable haptic devices and methods for modifying haptic effects to compensate for audio-haptic interference 2 patents · 2017–2019

Also filed as CN 106997238 · EP 3147757 · JP 2017062788 · KR 10-2017-0037530

Audio enhanced simulation of high bandwidth haptic effects 2 patents · 2018–2019

Also filed as EP 3040810 · KR 10-2016-0078226

Video gameplay haptics 2 patents · 2018–2020

Also filed as CN 105700675 · EP 3031502, 3549648 · JP 2016112403 · KR 10-2016-0071314

Haptic controller 1 patent · 2018

Also filed as EP 3020457 · JP 2016095847 · KR 10-2016-0056834

Automatic tuning of haptic effects 1 patent · 2018

Also filed as CN 104932681 · EP 2937863 · KR 10-2015-0110403

Dynamic rendering of etching input 2 patents · 2018–2019

Also filed as CN 107615213 · EP 3286621 · WO 2016/172209

Haptic peripheral having a haptically-enhanced user input element (mechanical key + integrated smart material actuator) 2 patents · 2018–2019

Also filed as CN 107402630 · EP 3246794 · JP 2017208094 · KR 10-2017-0131237

Systems and methods for position-based haptic effects (incl. GUI gestures in real space) 3 patents · 2018–2020

Also filed as CN 106896910 · EP 3179340 · IN 201634041164 · JP 2017107567, 2022003535 · KR 10-2017-0069936

Systems and methods for a low profile haptic actuator 2 patents · 2018–2020

Also filed as CN 107526463 · EP 3257591 · JP 2017224298 · KR 10-2017-0142113

Devices and methods for modifying haptic effects 1 patent · 2018

Also filed as CN 108079576 · EP 3327550 · JP 2018092621 · KR 10-2018-0058209

Haptically-enabled modular peripheral device assembly 1 patent · 2019

Also filed as EP 3208692 · IN 201734003609 · JP 2017146971 · KR 10-2017-0097564

Modifying haptic effects for slow motion 1 patent · 2019

Also filed as CN 107106908 · EP 3261737 · WO 2016/138235

Compensated haptic rendering for flexible electronic devices 1 patent · 2019

Also filed as CN 107807733 · EP 3293621 · JP 2018041463 · KR 10-2018-0028968

Single actuator haptic effects 1 patent · 2019

Also filed as CN 109324682 · EP 3438794 · JP 2019029006 · KR 10-2019-0013540

Generating actions based on a user's mood 1 patent · 2019

Also filed as CN 105929942 · EP 3062198 · JP 2016162459 · KR 10-2016-0105321

Haptic feedback using a field of view 2 patents · 2019–2020

Also filed as CN 108334190 · EP 3343326 · IN 201714045495 · JP 2018109974 · KR 10-2018-0076344, 10-2021-0095833

Haptic actuators having magnetic elements and at least one electromagnet 1 patent · 2019
Method and device for enabling pitch control for a haptic effect 2 patents · 2019–2020

Also filed as CN 110007751 · EP 3508950 · JP 2019121399 · KR 10-2019-0083994

Method and apparatus for determining energy availability for a haptic-enabled device (braking / non-braking mode) 1 patent · 2019

Also filed as CN 108415555 · EP 3361354 · JP 2018129049 · KR 10-2018-0092864

Methods and apparatuses for endstop diminishment solutions in haptically-enabled controller devices 1 patent · 2019

Also filed as CN 107621873 · EP 3270265 · JP 2018010639 · KR 10-2018-0008303

Media driven haptics 1 patent · 2020

Also filed as CN 107106906 · EP 3197573 · IN 201747015190 · WO 2016/105493

Cross-platform dynamic haptic effect design tool for augmented or virtual reality environments 1 patent · 2020

Also filed as CN 110389657 · EP 3557385 · JP 2019192238 · KR 10-2019-0122570

Systems and methods for multi-user shared virtual and augmented reality-based haptics 2 patents · 2020–2021

Also filed as CN 110389660 · EP 3567455 · JP 2019200783 · KR 10-2019-0122581