Patent 8169332 was granted and assigned to Pressure Profile Systems on May, 2012 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A tactile device includes a touch input surface in any number of forms including a force sensitive touch screen. In this embodiment a cover captures a transparent screen located on capacitive sensors. Touching the screen produces signals from each sensor that can be combined to identify the location of the touch and the force exerted by that touch.