ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,656,903, issued on June 16, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Adaptive scanning using capacitive sensors" was invented by Tracy Scott Dattalo (Los Gatos, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for performing a scanning process using adaptive scanning, comprising: driving, by a processing system of an input device, one or more of a first set of electrodes to generate first sensing signals that are detectable by a second set of electrodes; obtaining first resulting signals associated with the first sensing signals via the second set of electrodes; determining, based on the first resulting signals, a first subset o...