US Patent Issued to Google on June 16 for "Extending touch-sensitive regions on electronic devices" (American, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,893, issued on June 16, was assigned to Google LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Extending touch-sensitive regions on electronic devices" was invented by Gang Cheng (Burlingame, Calif.) and Chih Chun Chang (Hsinchu City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This document describes systems and techniques directed at extending touch-sensitive regions in electronic devices. In aspects, an electronic device includes a cover layer, a touch sensor panel, and an electronic visual display panel ("display panel"). The cover layer includes a top face and a side face. The touch sensor panel has a first sensing region corresponding to a surface of ...