US Patent Issued to Huawei Technologies'Co., 'Ltd.' on July 8 for "Virtual mouse for electronic touchscreen display" (Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,671, issued on July 8, was assigned to Huawei Technologies'Co.'Ltd.' (Shenzhen, China).

"Virtual mouse for electronic touchscreen display" was invented by Roya Cody (Markham, Canada), Che Yan (Toronto), Da-Yuan Huang (Markham, Canada) and Wei Li (Markham, Canada).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods are disclosed for providing a virtual mouse for a computing device have a touchscreen. A first placement region of the touchscreen may be determined. The first placement region may then be determined to contain a first portion of at least one touch target. The first portion of the at least one touch target may then be deactiva...