US Patent Issued to ASUSTEK COMPUTER on July 1 for "Seamless touchpad device" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,520, issued on July 1, was assigned to ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Seamless touchpad device" was invented by Chin-Wen Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), Hung-Yi Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), Wei-Ting Wong (Taipei, Taiwan) and Ching-Fu Hsu (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A seamless touchpad device includes at least two adjacent touchpad units, a first touchpad unit and a second touchpad unit. The first touchpad unit includes a plurality of first horizontal signal lines, a plurality of first vertical signal lines and a first control unit connected thereto. The second touchpad unit includes second horizontal signal lines, second v...