US Patent Issued to Cirque on Sept. 23 for "System for detecting and characterizing touch inputs at a human-computer interface" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,422,943, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to Cirque Corp. (Sandy, Utah).

"System for detecting and characterizing touch inputs at a human-computer interface" was invented by Ninad Sathe (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ilya Daniel Rosenberg (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Kirsten Etzold (Sunnyvale, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes: a substrate; a first electrode proximal a center on the substrate; and a second electrode interposed between the first electrode and an edge on the substrate. The system also includes a first coupling region: arranged on a first planar region of the baseplate; offset from the first electrode by a first hei...