US Patent Issued to NOVATEK Microelectronics on April 21 for "Multipoint touch and hover touch-compatible sensing device and sensing method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,608,110, issued on April 21, was assigned to NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Multipoint touch and hover touch-compatible sensing device and sensing method thereof" was invented by Pin-Wei Huang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Hsin-Ting Chan (Hsinchu City, Taiwan), Ding-Teng Shih (Hsinchu City, Taiwan) and Shi-Hao Huang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensing device includes a touch panel and a control circuit coupled to the touch panel. The touch panel includes touch sensors arranged in a matrix of x columns and y rows, and is used to generate touch data upon being scanned. The control circuit is u...