ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,724,506, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Speed adapted touch detection" was invented by Lejing Wang (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Benjamin R. Blachnitzky (San Francisco), Lilli I. Jonsson (Saratoga, Calif.) and Nicolai Georg (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Detecting a touch includes receiving image data of a touching object of a user selecting selectable objects of a target surface, determining a rate of movement of the touching object, in response to determining that the rate of movement satisfies a predetermined threshold, modifying a touch detection parameter for detecting a touch event bet...