ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,636, issued on July 14, was assigned to CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE TECHNOLOGIES GMBH (Hannover, Germany).

"Method and device for controlling a touch screen" was invented by Vincent Charon (Toulouse, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for controlling a touch screen including a display adapted to display at least one graphical interface element with a first graphical resolution, and a touch surface including a plurality of detection areas forming a detection grid whose touch resolution is lower than the first resolution. The method being such that it includes steps of determining a display position of a graphical interface elem...