ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,103, issued on April 21, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Touch sensing" was invented by Roman Ogirko (Lviv, Ukraine), Vasyl Mandziy (Schyrets, Ukraine) and Oleksandr Karpin (Lviv, Ukraine).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. In an embodiment of the techniques presented herein, a touch detection system, comprises a touch sensor array comprising unit cells, a transmit sequencer configured to generate an excitation signal, an analog-to-digital-converter unit configured to measure responses of the unit cells to the excitation signal and, a pr...