US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on March 31 for "Aggregated likelihood of unintentional touch input" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,337, issued on March 31, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Aggregated likelihood of unintentional touch input" was invented by Gilad Pundak (Rehovot, Israel), Hanan Grinberg (Ramat-Gan, Israel) and Eran Arbel (Netanya, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is presented for processing input at a touch-sensitive display device. A touch input to the touch-sensitive display device is recognized. Based at least on a first set of features extracted from the recognized touch input, a first likelihood that the recognized touch input is unintentional is determined and compared to a first confidenc...