ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,534, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"System and method for differential parallel touch sensing" was invented by Guozhong Shen (Fremont, Calif.), Chieh-Feng Tu (Taipei City, Taiwan) and Mihai M. Bulea (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for touch sensing are provided. An input device includes a display and a touch sensor. The touch sensor has a sensing area with a plurality of sensor pixels forming rows and columns. Each sensor pixel includes a first electrode having first capacitive coupling areas and a second electrode having second capacitive coupling areas. Th...