US Patent Issued to Cirque on Sept. 22 for "System for detecting and characterizing touch inputs at a human-computer interface" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,168, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Cirque Corp. (Sandy, Utah).

"System for detecting and characterizing touch inputs at a human-computer interface" was invented by Jacob Terracina (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ilya Rosenberg (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shuangming Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Darren Lochun (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Tomer Moscovich (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes: a substrate including an edge supported by a chassis; a first electrode spanning a first area of the substrate and arranged proximal a center of the substrate; and a second electrode spanning a second area, greater than the first area, on ...