US Patent Issued to Synaptics on Sept. 8 for "Touch identification technique for touch sensing devices" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,730,532, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Touch identification technique for touch sensing devices" was invented by Hiroshi Shimura (Kanagawa, Japan), Tomohiro Hirakawa (Chiba, Japan), Takayuki Noto (Tokyo), Shoji Fujita (Chiba, Japan) and Taku Yumoto (Saitama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes sensor electrodes, a touch controller, and a transmitter that provides a transmitter signal of a first frequency to an electrode capacitively coupled to a given object. The touch controller is configured to: generate a sensing signal that has a second frequency different from the first fre...