ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,312, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Adaptive power save mode for a touch controller" was invented by Ta-Jung Tsai (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "According to an embodiment, a method for operating a touchscreen in active mode is provided. A regression analysis, generating a set of coefficients, is performed on inputs from a respective row of a matrix of sensors at a time instant k. An output matrix is generated by applying a filter transform based on a comparison between the set of coefficients and first threshold values. A touch analysis is performed based on the o...