US Patent Issued to Dell Products on Dec. 9 for "Information handling system touch function row with gesture inputs" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,493,366, issued on Dec. 9, was assigned to Dell Products LP (Round Rock, Texas).

"Information handling system touch function row with gesture inputs" was invented by Dewey Yu (Pflugerville, Texas), Nidhi Palan (Pflugerville, Texas), Yongook Guack (Leander, Texas) and Keith M. Alfano (Manor, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A portable information handling system includes a touch function row between a keyboard and a display that accepts touches at plural locations to initiate an on-screen-display user interface for a selected of plural functions based upon a touch location. A sliding movement at the touch function row commands presenta...