ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,636, issued on July 15, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Methods for estimating touch location on a capacitive interface" was invented by Manpreet Singh Takkar (Brampton, Canada) and Wei Zhou (Richmond Hill, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Implementations of the present application provide methods for estimating a location of a detected touch input on a capacitive interface. A capacitive image representing capacitive sensor data associated with the detected touch input is obtained, and a touch region of the capacitive image is identified. The touch region corresponds to an area of the capacitive...