US Patent Issued to AZOTEQ HOLDINGS on March 31 for "Track pad with force sensing and haptic features" (South African Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,320, issued on March 31, was assigned to AZOTEQ HOLDINGS Ltd. (Nicosia, Cyprus).

"Track pad with force sensing and haptic features" was invented by Frederick Johannes Bruwer (Paarl, South Africa) and Dieter Sydney-Charles Mellet (Paarl, South Africa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitive track pad using force sensing to determine the approximate position of touch on the track pad and to use this position as a check against a capacitive touch determined position in order to disqualify potential noise generated signals. The position resolved from the inductive force sensing measurements can also be used to assist in generating a ...