US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Feb. 17 for "Information handling system touch detection palm rejection by force detection" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,364, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Information handling system touch detection palm rejection by force detection" was invented by Priyank J. Gajiwala (Austin, 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 detection sensor to detect pressure associated with the touches. Logic executing on a processing resource compares touch areas with associated pressures t...