ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,922, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to Honor Device Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for increasing touch response speed" was invented by Guangxu Zhao (Shenzhen, China), Yue Ding (Shenzhen, China) and Juncheng Tian (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "This application provides a method and an apparatus for increasing a touch response speed. In this method, after a part of transmit channels are scanned, touch data obtained through scanning is immediately transmitted to an application processor. In addition, a subsequent transmit channel scanning process is performed while the touch data is transmitted, so ...