ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,411,600, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to DISCO Corp. (Tokyo).
"Touch panel" was invented by Takafumi Omori (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a touch panel that displays an image in which a plurality of functional buttons are arranged. The plurality of buttons include a long-touch button a function of which can be rendered active after the button is continuously touched for a predetermined time period, and attendant on the long-touch button, a count-down signal notifying a time period remaining before a timing at which the function can be rendered active is displayed."
The patent was filed on Dec. 13, 2023, unde...