ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,743,179, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co. Ltd. (Osaka, Japan).
"Touch sensor" was invented by Ryo Yamaguchi (Osaka Fu, Japan), Xiaofeng Lu (Osaka Fu, Japan), Tetsuya Minamide (Osaka Fu, Japan) and Mitsuru Satou (Kanagawa Ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Each sensor electrode includes transmission electrodes extending in a first direction, and reception electrodes extending in a second direction. Each of the transmission electrodes and the reception electrodes includes a mesh pattern formed by arranging a plurality of cells. Each cell has a quadrangular shape formed by a first di...