ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,653, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to Honor Device Co. Ltd. (Shenzhen, China).

"Method and apparatus for preventing accidental touch" was invented by Haoxuan Di (Shenzhen, China), Danhong Li (Shenzhen, China) and Xiaowu Zhang (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for preventing an accidental touch, applied to the field of terminal technologies. The method includes: obtaining a quaternion of a terminal; determining, based on the quaternion of the terminal, first information and attitude angle information of the terminal; detecting motion information of the terminal; detecting ambient...