ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,024, issued on June 24, was assigned to Apple Inc. (Cupertino, Calif.).
"Enhanced virtual touchpad" was invented by Eyal Bychkov (Hod Hasharon, Israel), Oren Brezner (Rishon Lezion, Israel), Micha Galor (Tel Aviv, Israel), Ofir Or (Ramat Gan, Israel), Jonathan Pokrass (Bat Yam, Israel) and Amir Eshel (Nes Ziona, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method, including receiving, by a computer, a two-dimensional image (2D) containing at least a physical surface and segmenting the physical surface into one or more physical regions. A functionality is assigned to each of the one or more physical regions, each of the functionalities cor...