ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,025, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to HIDEEP INC. (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

"Touch apparatus" was invented by Seyeob Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Jongsik Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Hwanhee Lee (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Hyoungwook Woo (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Kiryoung Jung (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Bonkee Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An exemplary embodiment of the present invention provides a touch apparatus including: a touch panel including a plurality of first touch electrodes arranged in a first direction and a plurality of second touch electrodes arranged in a second direction...