ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,578,831, issued on March 17, was assigned to Primax Electronics Ltd. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Touch module with different types of pressure sensing elements" was invented by Wei-Chiang Huang (Taipei, Taiwan), Wei-Ping Chan (Taipei, Taiwan), Chieh-Hung Hsieh (Taipei, Taiwan), Tse-Ping Kuan (Taipei, Taiwan) and Ming-Hui Yeh (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch module includes a base plate, a touch pad, a first pressure sensing element, a second pressure sensing element and a controller. The touch pad includes a first touch area, a second touch area and a third touch area. The first pressure sensing element and the second press...