ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,299,234, issued on May 13, was assigned to HiDeep Inc. (South Korea).

"Touch input device and method with determination of floating ground state" was invented by Bonkee Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea), Seyeob Kim (Seongnam-si, South Korea) and Joohyun Go (Seongnam-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Embodiments of the present invention relate to a touch input device and a touch driving method thereof, in more detail, it can determine a floating ground state of the touch input device and a magnitude (severity) of the floating ground state, it relates to a touch driving method thereof, which is a touch input device that can resto...