ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,596,471, issued on April 7, was assigned to SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Suwon-si, South Korea).

"Device and method with trained neural network to identify touch input" was invented by Dongchan Kim (Suwon-si, South Korea) and Jinyoung Hwang (Suwon-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a touch screen and a processor configured to: based on a touch input of a user being acquired through the touch screen, acquire an image corresponding to the acquired touch input of the user; identify a type of the acquired touch input of the user by inputting, to a neural network model for identifying the type of the...