ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,681,597, issued on July 14, was assigned to PIXART IMAGING INC. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Human interface device" was invented by Xiao-Lin Chuang (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan), Che-Chia Hsu (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan) and Yu-Han Chen (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A human interface device includes a touch panel and a processing module that is electrically coupled to the touch panel. The touch panel has a first setting region and defines a second setting region in the first setting region. The processing module has a coordinate detection mechanism and a coordinate conversion mechanism. The coordinate detection mechanism defines a first longitudi...