US Patent Issued to Cambridge Touch Technologies on Sept. 1 for "Force input localisation" (British Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,723,932, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to Cambridge Touch Technologies Ltd. (Cambridge, Great Britain).

"Force input localisation" was invented by Constantinos Tsangarides (Cambridge, Great Britain), Michael Astley (Cambridge, Great Britain), Riccardo Micci (Cambridge, Great Britain) and Jiahao Li (Cambridge, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device (15) including a piezoelectric sensor (16). The piezoelectric sensor (16) includes a layer of piezoelectric material (7) disposed between a number of sensing electrodes (4, 12, 13) and at least one counter electrode (3). The device (15) also includes a controller (17) connected...