US Patent Issued to GOOGLE on March 11 for "Touch sensor with overlapping sensing elements for input surface differentiation" (American, Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,248,649, issued on March 11, was assigned to GOOGLE LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Touch sensor with overlapping sensing elements for input surface differentiation" was invented by Tong Wu (Mountain View, Calif.) and Shiho Fukuhara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor system includes a touch sensor having a plurality of conductive sensing elements integrated with a flexible substrate. A first subset of sensing elements is coupled to a first side of the flexible substrate and a second subset of sensing elements is coupled to a second side of the flexible substrate. At least one sensing element of the first subset overlies a seco...