ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,161, issued on March 18, was assigned to FUJITSU COMPONENT Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Touch panel device" was invented by Yuta Nakamura (Tokyo), Yutaka Ueno (Tokyo), Masaya Morohashi (Tokyo), Takuya Ozawa (Tokyo), Hideyuki Hagihara (Tokyo) and Yuji Makiuchi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch panel device includes a first conductive film having first and second regions, at least a part of the first conductive film between the first and the second regions being removed, a second conductive film laminated on the first conductive film across a gap, first and second terminals that output signals, a first electrode electrically connected t...