ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,693,763, issued on July 28, was assigned to HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES Ltd. (Tainan City, Taiwan).

"Signal processing method and related circuit" was invented by Yaw-Guang Chang (Tainan City, Taiwan), Ren-Yuan Huang (Tainan City, Taiwan), Yi-Yang Tsai (Tainan City, Taiwan) and Hao-Cheng Tsai (Tainan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit, for a touch panel, comprises a plurality of touch signal processing circuits, coupled to a plurality of sensors of the touch panel to receive a plurality of touch signals, wherein when a first sensor within the plurality of sensors is touched, the first sensor generates a first touch signal of th...