US Patent Issued to Cirque on Sept. 23 for "Materials and structures for spacer elements in a human-computer interface system" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,951, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Cirque Corp. (Sandy, Utah).

"Materials and structures for spacer elements in a human-computer interface system" was invented by Ping Liu (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Sophia Chau (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ninad Sathe (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Darren Lochun (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Ilya Daniel Rosenburg (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "One variation of a system for a touch sensor includes: a substrate; a baseplate; and spacer elements. The substrate defines support locations. The baseplate spans a bottom layer of the substrate and defines spring elements: aligned to the support locations of the s...