ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,110, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Elo Touch Solutions Inc. (Knoxville, Tenn.).

"Multi-user multi-touch projected capacitance touch sensor with event initiation based on common touch entity detection" was invented by Damien Berget (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Kenneth Andrew Feehan (Belmont, Calif.), Paul Leonard Futter (Cary, N.C.), David Samuel Hecht (San Diego), Joel Christopher Kent (Fremont, Calif.), Robert William Kitchin (Los Gatos, Calif.), Kenneth John North (San Carlos, Calif.), James Roney (Fremont, Calif.), Kyu-Tak Son (Mountain View, Calif.), Jung Verheiden (San Francisco) and Forrest Kim Wunderlich (El Granada, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Pa...