ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,591,335, issued on March 31, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for differential parallel touch sensing" was invented by Sung-Sool Lee (Gangnam-gu, South Korea), Guozhong Shen (Fremont, Calif.), Yoonhong Kim (Gangnam-gu, South Korea), Tom Vandermeijden (San Jose, Calif.) and Ching-Hsung Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for differential parallel touch sensing are provided. An input device includes a display with an integrated touch sensor. The touch sensor includes a plurality of sets of sensor electrodes. Each set of sensor electrodes has a positive transmitt...