ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,366,944, issued on July 22, was assigned to EGALAX_EMPIA TECHNOLOGY INC. (Taipei, Taiwan).

"Touch panel and applicable touch sensitive processing method and apparatus and touch system" was invented by Shun-Lung Ho (Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch panel sequentially comprising: a first electrode layer, which comprises multiple first electrodes in parallel to a first axis; an elastic dielectric layer; and a second structure, which further comprises: multiple second circuits in parallel to the first axis; multiple third circuits in parallel to a second axis; multiple second electrodes; and multiple switch circuits, whe...