ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,650,751, issued on June 9, was assigned to Primax Electronics Ltd. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Touch module" was invented by Wei-Chiang Huang (Taipei, Taiwan), Wei-Ping Chan (Taipei, Taiwan), Tse-Ping Kuan (Taipei, Taiwan), Sian-Yi Chiu (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chih-Wei Huang (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch module includes a base plate, a touch plate, an elastic structure and a pressure sensor. The elastic structure includes an elastic element. The pressure sensor includes a sensing element and a sensing part. The touch panel is located over the base plate. The elastic element of the elastic structure is disposed on the base pla...