ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,602,138, issued on April 14, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).
"Touch panel" was invented by Masaya Nakayama (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch panel that makes it possible to narrow a peripheral region which is not used for touch detection. The touch panel has a configuration in which a first conductive layer consisting of a first fine metal wire, an insulating layer, and a second conductive layer consisting of a second fine metal wire are sequentially laminated, the first conductive layer has first detection electrodes, first dummy electrodes, and second wiring lines that are disposed on the first dummy elec...