ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,737,089, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"System and method for multi-waveform driving for touch sensing" was invented by Chunbo Liu (San Jose, Calif.) and Mulka R. Reddy (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for transmitting signals using an input device is provided. The input device comprises a display and a touch sensor. The touch sensor has a plurality of sensor electrodes and a sensor circuit. The plurality of sensor electrodes are configured to transmit a periodic signal corresponding to a first waveform and a second waveform. The sensor circuit has a first char...