US Patent Issued to Intel on Aug. 25 for "Systems and methods to reduce accidental touch actions on a touchscreen" (Oregon Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,469, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Systems and methods to reduce accidental touch actions on a touchscreen" was invented by James M. Yoder (Beaverton, Ore.), Prosenjit Ghosh (Portland, Ore.), Jordan Maslov (Portland, Ore.), Surya Pratap Mishra (Portland, Ore.) and Tsung-Hsing Hsu (Hillsboro, Ore.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods to reduce accidental touch actions on a touchscreen are disclosed herein. An example electronic device includes a body including a first body portion and a second body portion that is movable relative to the first body portion. The first and second bo...