ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,931, issued on June 30, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).
"Touchpad activation regions for dynamic touch sensor activation" was invented by Dongeek Shin (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A user device includes a touchpad having touch sensors configured to detect user interactions. Initially, the user device is configured to activate each touch sensor of the touchpad based on a default probability such that the activated touch sensors are provided power and are able to detect user interactions. Based on receiving a first user interaction, the user device arranges the touch sensors of the touchpad in...