US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 25 for "Adjusting touch input force threshold" (Israeli, American Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,717,439, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Adjusting touch input force threshold" was invented by Molly Jo Gesell (Bothell, Wash.), Elizabeth Ann Pina (Lynnwood, Wash.), Adam Benjamin Meshi (Herzliya, Israel), Robert Bryce Johnson (Sammamish, Wash.), Solomon Stone Romney (Bellevue, Wash.), Tal Bizinsky Tovel (Ramat HaSharon, Israel), Arthur Gershfeld (Holon, Israel) and Hila Malihi (Jerusalem).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computing devices and related methods for adjusting a force threshold for touch input on a touchpad are disclosed. In one example, a computing device comprises a f...