US Patent Issued to Novatek Microelectronics on Sept. 16 for "Touch panel with well-designed touch pattern" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,005, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Novatek Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Touch panel with well-designed touch pattern" was invented by Yu-Ying Tang (Taoyuan, Taiwan) and Chih-Chang Lai (Taichung, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The touch panel includes a plurality of first electrodes, a plurality of second electrodes, and a plurality of bridge structures. Each of the first electrodes includes a first branch, a second branch, a third branch and a fourth branch. The first and second branches are opposite to each other, and the third and fourth branches are opposite to each other. Each of the second electrodes ...