US Patent Issued to Microchip Touch Solutions on May 12 for "Dynamic configuration of driven shield BGA balls of a capacitive sensor array" (British, Norwegian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,625,578, issued on May 12, was assigned to Microchip Touch Solutions Ltd. (Wokingham, Great Britain).

"Dynamic configuration of driven shield BGA balls of a capacitive sensor array" was invented by Richard P. Collins (Southampton, Great Britain) and Tor Erik Leistad (Trondheim, Norway).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus may include a capacitive touch controller, a ball grid array package, firmware, and a driven shield driver circuitry. The ball grid array package may comprise a plurality of balls arranged in multiple concentric rings. The firmware may dynamically select a driven shield pattern based on a received aspect ratio inpu...