ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,558, issued on May 27, was assigned to Cirrus Logic Inc. (Austin, Texas).
"Force sensing system and method" was invented by Hamid Sepehr (London), Pablo Peso Parada (London), Willem Zwart (Edinburgh, Great Britain), Tom Birchall (London), Michael Allen Kost (Cedar Park, Texas), Tejasvi Das (Austin, Texas), Siddharth Maru (Austin, Texas), Matthew Beardsworth (Austin, Texas) and Bruce E. Duewer (Round Rock, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A force sensing system for determining if a user input has occurred, the system comprising: an input channel, to receive an input from at least one force sensor; an activity detection stage, to m...