Apple hit with $5.7 billion in damages over haptic patents

Haptics tech institution Taction sued Apple successful 2021, alleging it infringed 2 of its patents. Now a national assemblage successful San Diego has awarded Taction implicit $5.7 cardinal successful damages. According to CNBC, "The suit centered astir U.S. Patent Nos. 10,659,885 and 10,820,117, which some impact vibration-based, tactile transducer exertion that helps users consciousness a instrumentality responding to their input."

Taction argued that Apple's Taptic Engine successful its Apple Watches and iPhones utilized exertion that it had developed without a due license, and the assemblage agreed. It recovered that Apple had infringed connected 2 claims successful 1 patent and 1 successful the other. However, the j …

Read the afloat communicative astatine The Verge.