ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,321,550, issued on June 3, was assigned to HIMAX TECHNOLOGIES Ltd. (Tainan, Taiwan).

"Signal processing method and related circuit having backup processing circuit" was invented by Yaw-Guang Chang (Tainan, Taiwan), Jia-Ming He (Tainan, Taiwan) and Yi-Yang Tsai (Tainan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A circuit, for a touch panel, comprising N touch signal processing circuits; a backup processing circuit; and a controller, coupled to the N touch signal processing circuits and the backup processing circuit, configured to determine whether one of the N touch signal processing circuits is failed and generate a determining result, and co...