ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,547,282, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Detection method and touch and display driver integration thereof" was invented by Chung-Cher Lin (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Yun-Hsiang Yeh (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Ta-Keng Weng (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection method for a touch and display driver integration circuit of a touch device comprises determining whether an active stylus contacts the touch device according to information related to strength of a sensing signal, which is corresponding to the active stylus, and providing the sensing signal or position informati...