ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,930, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Touch-sensing pattern for multi-angular orientations" was invented by Merrick Kam McCracken (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Tauseef Muzaffar (Santa Clara, Calif.), Yao Xue (San Jose, Calif.), Max Koopman (San Francisco) and Chun Yat Frank Li (Palo Alto, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device that includes a touch-sensing device having a plurality of touch sensors arranged in a pattern configured to detect user input at a plurality of angular orientations is disclosed. The user input may be a horizontal swipe across the touch-sensing device or a vert...