ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,456,238, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to ASUSTEK COMPUTER INC. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Image generation device and image generation method" was invented by Hao-Ping Lin (Taipei, Taiwan), Wen-Yun Liu (Taipei, Taiwan), Chien-Chih Tseng (Taipei, Taiwan), Hung-Yi Lin (Taipei, Taiwan) and Ya-Ting Chen (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An image generation device including a touch module with a function area and a touch area, a control unit and a processing unit is provided. The control unit is electrically coupled to the touch module and is configured to receive a first gesture signal through the function area and receive at least o...