ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,455, issued on April 7, was assigned to ELAN MICROELECTRONICS Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Control method for a touchpad" was invented by Ying-Jie Liu (Zhubei City, Taiwan) and Hsueh-Wei Yang (Zhubei City, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control method for a touchpad is provided. When a vibration unit is driven, the touchpad enters a touch function restriction mode so that the touchpad undergoes various different controls compared to the normal mode. This helps to avoid erroneous capacitive sensing caused by the driving of the vibration unit, preventing determinations in touch operations and avoiding the accidental triggering of...