US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on June 23 for "Touchscreen device and method of operating the same" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,663,899, issued on June 23, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Touchscreen device and method of operating the same" was invented by Da Man (Beijing), Bin Fan (Beijing), Yue Ding (Beijing) and Pengcheng Wen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a touchscreen device includes measuring a raw data value at a touch node among a plurality of touch nodes on the touchscreen device, assigning a positive touch value to each touch node having a positive raw data value greater than a first predetermined threshold, assigning a negative touch value to each touch node having a negative raw data valu...