Innovations in haptic-enabled user interfaces broaden powerful portfolio

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Immersion Corporation (Nasdaq:IMMR), a leading developer and licensor of touch feedback technology, today announced that it has been awarded over 600 patents in its world-wide portfolio of over 1200 granted and pending patents. Immersion's most recent additions strengthen the company's portfolio of haptic effects for touchscreen user interfaces.

"With nearly 20 years of innovation at its core, Immersion's growing patent portfolio is fundamental in creating engaging touchscreen experiences with haptics," explains Vic Viegas, Immersion CEO. "As touchscreens become the industry standard interface for portable and consumer devices, Immersion's investments become increasingly relevant to manufacturers, including smartphone and tablet OEMs, looking to enhance their devices through haptics."

Some of Immersion's most recent patents cover the output of haptic effects based on sensing a user's input on a touchscreen and the association of an event with a haptic effect in a multi-tasking environment. These patents belong to patent families with a number of granted and pending patents:

U.S. Patent No. 7,969,288— "Force Feedback System Including Multi-Tasking Graphical Host Environment and Interface Device" covers the association of an event with a haptic effect in a multi-tasking environment.

U.S. Patent No. 7,978,183 and U.S. Patent No. 7,982,720 — "Haptic Feedback for Touchpads and Other Touch Controls" cover the output of haptic effects associated with a graphical user interface (GUI) on a touchscreen display.

"As the industry leader in haptics, Immersion has the unique expertise to envision and design next-generation touchscreen interfaces," explains Dennis Sheehan, VP of Marketing at Immersion. "We pride ourselves in offering our customers and partners elegantly designed and easy to implement software solutions, as well as access to a powerful and growing patent portfolio that provides compelling haptic experiences that are relevant to today's GUI-driven touchscreen interfaces."

For more information on Immersion's global patent portfolio, visit http://www.immersion.com/licensing/patents/index.html.

About Immersion (www.immersion.com)

Founded in 1993, Immersion (NASDAQ: IMMR) is the leading innovator in haptics technology; the company's touch feedback solutions deliver a more compelling sense of the digital world. Using Immersion's high-fidelity haptic systems, partners can transform user experiences with unique and customizable touch feedback effects; excite the senses in games, videos and music; restore "mechanical" feel by providing intuitive and unmistakable confirmation; improve safety by overcoming distractions while driving or performing a medical procedure; and expand usability when audio and visual feedback are ineffective. Immersion's TouchSense technology provides haptics in mobile phone, automotive, gaming, medical and consumer electronics products from world-class companies. With over 1,200 issued or pending patents in the U.S. and other countries, Immersion helps bring the digital universe to life.

Immersion, the Immersion logo, MOTIV and TouchSense are trademarks of Immersion Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

Forward-looking Statements

This press release contains "forward-looking statements" that involve risks and uncertainties, as well as assumptions that, if they never materialize or prove incorrect, could cause the results of Immersion Corporation and its consolidated subsidiaries to differ materially from those expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements.

All statements, other than the statements of historical fact, are statements that may be deemed forward-looking statements, including, but not limited to, the statement that Immersion continues to grow its patent portfolio to provide more engaging ways to bring haptics to touchscreen experiences, the statement that Immersion's investments become increasingly relevant to manufacturers looking to enhance their devices through haptics, and the statement regarding Immersion's unique expertise to envision and design next generation touchscreen interfaces.

Immersion's actual results might differ materially from those stated or implied by such forward-looking statements due to risks and uncertainties associated with Immersion's business, which include, but are not limited to, adverse outcomes in any future intellectual property-related litigation and the costs related thereto; the effects of the current macroeconomic climate; delay in or failure to achieve commercial demand for Immersion's products or third party products incorporating Immersion's technologies; a delay in or failure to achieve the acceptance of force feedback as a critical user experience; and unanticipated difficulties and challenges encountered in product development efforts by Immersion and its licensees. Many of these risks and uncertainties are beyond the control of Immersion.

For a more detailed discussion of these factors, and other factors that could cause actual results to vary materially, interested parties should review the risk factors listed in Immersion's most current Form 10-Q and Form 10-K, which are on file with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The forward-looking statements in this press release reflect Immersion's beliefs and predictions as of the date of this release. Immersion disclaims any obligation to update these forward-looking statements as a result of financial, business, or any other developments occurring after the date of this release.

The use of the word "partner" or "partnership" in this press release does not mean a legal partner or legal partnership.

Immersion, the Immersion logo and TouchSense are trademarks of Immersion Corporation in the United States and other countries. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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