ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,989, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to ELAN MICROELECTRONICS Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
"Touchpad" was invented by Yu-Kai Lin (Hsinchu, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touchpad has a substrate, a sensing panel and a cover stacked in a sequence. The sensing panel has multiple sensing traces formed thereon. At least one flexible connecting board is connected between the sensing panel and the substrate via its end. The connecting board has multiple extending traces formed thereon, which are thinner than the sensing traces, to form an electrical connection between the sensing traces and the controller on the substrate. The flexibl...