US Patent Issued to PARADE TECHNOLOGIES on March 3 for "Methods and systems for determining orientation information of passive styluses" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,566,517, issued on March 3, was assigned to PARADE TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods and systems for determining orientation information of passive styluses" was invented by Yi Ling (Redwood City, Calif.), Roel Coppoolse (San Jose, Calif.) and Pete Vavaroutsos (Scotts Valley, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a capacitive sense array made of a plurality of sense electrodes. A subset of sense electrodes of the capacitive sense array is scanned to obtain a plurality of capacitive sense signals, and a touch map is generated from at least a subset of the capacitive sense array based on the plura...