US Patent Issued to Dell Products on April 14 for "Information handling system touch detection palm rest to support touch function row" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,156, issued on April 14, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Information handling system touch detection palm rest to support touch function row" was invented by Priyank J. Gajiwala (Austin, Texas), Nidhi Palan (Pflugerville, Texas), Keith M. Alfano (Manor, Texas), Nicholas G. DiLoreto (Georgetown, Texas), Dewey Yu (Pflugerville, Texas) and Brandon J. Brocklesby (Pflugerville, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable information handling system palm rest adjacent a mechanical keyboard includes a touch detection surface to accept end user touches as inputs to the information handling system and a force detec...