ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,623, issued on July 7, was assigned to Wuhan Tianma Micro-Electronics Co. Ltd. (Wuhan, China).

"Touch chip, touch control testing method and electronic device" was invented by Lu Tang (Wuhan, China), Ye Huang (Wuhan, China), Xigang Liu (Wuhan, China) and Zhihua Yu (Wuhan, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch chip is applied to a touch display panel including a plurality of touch-sensing channels. The touch chip includes a plurality of analog-to-digital conversion circuits electrically connected to the plurality of touch-sensing channels of the touch display panel in one-to-one correspondence."

The patent was filed on May 28, ...