ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,561,029, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to PIXART IMAGING INC. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).
"Touch panel" was invented by Chi-Chieh Liao (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Chih-Wei Huang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Che-Chia Hsu (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch panel includes a carrier, a first metal structure, and a second metal structure, the latter two of which are respectively disposed on two opposite sides of the carrier. The first metal structure includes a sensing electrode layer and a driving electrode layer that is spaced apart from the sensing electrode layer. The second metal structure includes a first shielding layer and a second ...