ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,975, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"Touch panel" was invented by Masaya Nakayama (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch panel that makes it possible to narrow a peripheral region not used for touch detection. The touch panel includes a first conductive layer consisting of a first fine metal wire, an insulating layer, and a second conductive layer consisting of a second fine metal wire that are sequentially laminated, where the first conductive layer has first detection electrodes, first dummy electrodes, and second wiring lines that are disposed on the first dummy electrode, the second ...