US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on Oct. 27 for "Systems and methods for detecting and filtering unintentional touches on a trackpad" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,775,356, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Systems and methods for detecting and filtering unintentional touches on a trackpad" was invented by Soheil Kianzad (Toronto), Wei Li (Toronto), Shuping Lu (Toronto), Zehao Zhang (Scarborough, Canada) and Yuan Deng (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and devices for identifying unintentional touch events on or near a virtual trackpad by using capacitive sensing to accurately detect and distinguish between intentional gestures and unintentional palm or thumb contact. Touch events within palm rest regions on either side of a vi...