ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,645,318, issued on June 2, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).
"Enabling a touch function row to wake a system based on an accelerometer tap algorithm" was invented by Yung-Sheng Lin (Taoyuan City, Taiwan), Shun-Tang Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan) and Daniel L. Hamlin (Round Rock, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An information handling system includes a cover and a case bottom. The cover includes a first accelerometer and the case bottom includes a second accelerometer. The information handling system detects a tap event on one of the first accelerometer or the second accelerometer, determines whether the tap event is detecte...