ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,417, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to DARWIN PRECISIONS Corp. (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

"Three-dimensional touch device and manufacturing method thereof" was invented by Chia Tsun Huang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Hsuan Yao (Hsinchu County, Taiwan), Chun-Ling Huang (Hsinchu County, Taiwan) and Chia-Hung Liu (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A three-dimensional touch device includes a flexible circuit board structure and an in-mold formed film. The flexible circuit board structure includes a flexible circuit substrate and touch electrodes disposed on the outer surface of the flexible circuit substrate. The flexi...