ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,687,943, issued on July 21, was assigned to HiDeep Inc. (South Korea).

"Touch sensor and touch input device thereof" was invented by Bonkee Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Seyeob Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Young Ho Cho (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Yunjoung Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch sensor minimizing the total number of channels for the touch sensor and a width of a bezel. The touch input device having a portrait shape in which a vertical length is greater than a horizontal length according to an embodiment includes: a touch sensor including a plurality of first electrodes arranged in the ...