ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,887, issued on June 30, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).
"Decoding touch data based on a code word portion" was invented by Axel Heim (Munich).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems having a capacitive touch sensing system with transmit and receive electrodes positioned to have mutual capacitances at node intersections that deviate when a node is touched; a processor; and a machine readable storage medium with instructions to: assign complete code words to transmit electrodes; identify a subset of transmit electrodes based on a prior touch position estimate; generate a transmit signal for the transmit elect...