ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,109, issued on April 21, was assigned to Magnolia White Corp. (Tokyo).
"Detection device having peripheral region detection electrodes" was invented by Hiroshi Yamaguchi (Tokyo) and Naoki Takada (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection device includes a plurality of first detection electrodes disposed in a matrix of rows and columns in a detection region of a substrate, at least one second detection electrode disposed in a peripheral region outside the detection region, positioned adjacent to some of the plurality of the first detection electrodes, and provided along a side of the detection region, and a coordinate calculat...