ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,097, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Brilliant NextGen Inc. (San Mateo, Calif.).
"Touch-based control device" was invented by Aaron T. Emigh (San Mateo, Calif.), Steven Stanek (San Mateo, Calif.), Brian Cardanha (San Mateo, Calif.), Bozhi See (San Mateo, Calif.), Iris Yan (San Mateo, Calif.) and Gaurav Hardikar (San Mateo, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control device includes an exterior panel comprising multiple regions, including a groove region and a surrounding region that surrounds the groove region. The control device further includes a sensor layer comprising one or more sensors to detect touch inputs performed on...