ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,586, issued on May 12, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods for classifying touch inputs on a capacitive interface" was invented by Manpreet Singh Takkar (Brampton, Canada), Wei Zhou (Richmond Hill, Canada), Shung Hei Lynn (Thornhill, Canada) and Shuping Lu (Toronto).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present application provide methods for classifying a detected touch input on a capacitive interface. A sequence of capacitive images representing capacitive sensor data associated with touch inputs detected during a continuous touch gesture is obtained. The capacitive images are sequent...