US Patent Issued to UltraSense Systems on Aug. 11 for "Methods of distinguishing among touch events using piezoelectric micromechanical sensing" (American, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,704,483, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to UltraSense Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Methods of distinguishing among touch events using piezoelectric micromechanical sensing" was invented by Sina Akhbari (San Jose, Calif.), Zhongxuan Tu (Shanghai), Michael Chen (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Hao-Yen Tang (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of distinguishing between a first-type touch event and a second-type touch event is disclosed. A force-measuring and touch-sensing system includes piezoelectric force-measuring elements (PFEs) and piezoelectric ultrasonic transducers (PUTs), wherein each PUT can be configured as a tr...