ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,019, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to Getac Technology Corp. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Touch-control method, electronic device, and touch-control system" was invented by Jiunn-Jye Lee (Taipei, Taiwan) and Tzu-Yi Chuang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch-control method, an electronic device, and a touch-control system are provided. The touch-control method includes: obtaining an ambient brightness level via a light sensor; recording a duration in which the ambient brightness level is lower than a threshold, and determining, in response to the duration being greater than a predetermined minimum time length and less t...