US Patent Issued to UltraSense Systems on March 3 for "Method of assessing a user input at a virtual button of a user-input system and a user-input system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,860, issued on March 3, was assigned to UltraSense Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Method of assessing a user input at a virtual button of a user-input system and a user-input system" was invented by Hao-Yen Tang (San Jose, Calif.) and Sina Akhbari (San Jose, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of assessing a user input at a virtual button of a user-input system includes: (A) configuring at least one force-measuring device including a plurality of piezoelectric micromechanical force-measuring elements (PMFEs); (B) configuring a cover layer of the user-input system including coupling the force-measuring device(s) to the c...