ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,120, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (San Jose, Calif.).
"Hover detection for touchscreens" was invented by Vasyl Mandziy (Pustomytydistrict, Ukraine), Andriy Maharyta (Lviv, Ukraine), Oleksandr Karpin (Lviv, Ukraine), Mykhaylo Krekhovetskyy (Lviv, Ukraine) and Volodymyr Bihday (Lviv, Ukraine).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Measured signal data, detected by a sensor array of a device, is used to create a generated representation from the measured signal data. The generated representation is compared with a measured representation of the measured signal data to create a correlation coefficient correspondi...