ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,554,342, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Wacom Co. Ltd. (Saitama, Japan).
"Touch pad and computer" was invented by Jun Kadowaki (Saitama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch pad is configured to receive input operations using objects including a finger and a stylus. The touch pad includes a touch screen including a touch detection surface that serves as a button and as a position detection region for detecting positions of the objects. The touch pad includes an integrated circuit having an object detection function of detecting the positions of the objects on the touch detection surface and a button function of detecting a pr...