US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on March 31 for "Adjacent capacitive touch screen event tracking" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,362, issued on March 31, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Adjacent capacitive touch screen event tracking" was invented by Roya Allison Cody (Toronto), Wei Li (Markham, Canada), Che Yan (Kanata, Canada), Wei Zhou (Kanata, Canada) and Kushagra Goel (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for tracking continuous touch events, such as drag operations, across adjacent capacitive touch surfaces. The adjacent capacitive touch surfaces may include a foldable touch screen having a hinged area between the two capacitive touch surfaces. The adjacent capacitive touch surfaces may include sep...