ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,105, issued on April 21, was assigned to Cirque Corp. (Sandy, Utah).

"Determining an unprompted pressure" was invented by Daniel Ferguson (Herriman, Utah), Brian Monson (Farmington, Utah) and Ethan Sturm (Salt Lake City).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A capacitance module may include a set of electrodes, a processor in communication with the set of electrodes and memory in communication with the processor. The memory may include programmed instructions that cause the capacitance module, when executed, to perform a calibration, the calibration including prompting a press input, storing a press attribute of a press measurement associat...