ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,687, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Amazon Technologies Inc. (Seattle).
"User identification attribution for touch interactions" was invented by Zhengyang Wu (Kenmore, Wash.), Raghuvir Mukeshkumar Songhela (Seattle), Bharath Bhimanaik Kumar (Sammamish, Wash.), John Charles Howard (Redmond, Wash.), Shilong Yao (Bellevue, Wash.), Alok Upadhyay (Bellevue, Wash.), Roy Lee Scott (Seattle) and FNU Palak (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for determining user identification and attributing the user identification to a touch input received at a touch screen enabled electronic device are described. Some embodimen...