US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on June 16 for "Method and system for edge mistouch rejection on touchscreen devices" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,910, issued on June 16, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Method and system for edge mistouch rejection on touchscreen devices" was invented by Guodong Sun (Beijing), Yue Ding (Beijing) and Bin Fan (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating an electronic device includes detecting a plurality of touch inputs for a number of frames on an edge zone of a touchscreen of the device, determining a distance between adjacent touch input within an expanded edge zone, in response to the distance being less than a threshold distance, rejecting the touch inputs as invalid, and in response to the d...