ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,430,018, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Futaijing Precision Electronics (Yantai) Co. Ltd. (Yantai, China) and HON HAI PRECISION INDUSTRY Co. LTD. (New Taipei, Taiwan).

"Customizable border areas for touch control operations" was invented by Szu-Ting Lee (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device control method implementing to blindly operate an electronic device through a border, comprises determining a control function corresponding to a first border area of the electronic device in response to the first border area receiving a first touch operation, outputting a prompt tone corresponding to the control function, ...