ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,492, issued on May 27, was assigned to HIGGSTEC INC. (Su'ao Township, Taiwan).
"Touch sensor" was invented by Hung-Yu Tsai (Yilan County, Taiwan), Yung-Chuan Hsu (Yilan County, Taiwan) and Zhe-Wei Zhang (Yilan County, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch sensor comprises two baseplates, a first electrode, a second electrode and a variable geometry electrode, the baseplates are arranged at intervals, and a first distance formed therebetween, the first electrode is arranged on one of the two baseplates and has a first projected area, the second electrode is arranged on one of the two baseplates same as the first electrode arra...