US Patent Issued to Qorvo US on June 16 for "Force-augmented scrolling input device" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,886, issued on June 16, was assigned to Qorvo US Inc. (Greensboro, N.C.).

"Force-augmented scrolling input device" was invented by Victor Sutardja (Saratoga, Calif.), Bryan Low (San Mateo, Calif.) and Julius Minglin Tsai (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure relates to a scrolling input device that maps a physical movement of a scroll gesture into a digital scrolling and includes a touch-surface with an active area, at least one force sensor, and a microcontroller. The force sensor is configured to detect force applied to the active area by sensing strains in the touch-surface during the physical dis...