US Patent Issued to Infineon Technologies on Aug. 26 for "Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) multi-touch and slider detection with improved pixel area coverage and ultrasonic feedback by a same pixel array" (German, Romanian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,399,592, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to Infineon Technologies AG (Neubiberg, Germany).

"Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducer (CMUT) multi-touch and slider detection with improved pixel area coverage and ultrasonic feedback by a same pixel array" was invented by Emanuel Stoicescu (Bucharest, Romania), Matthias Eberl (Taufkirchen, Germany), Mohanraj Soundara Pandian (UnterschleiBheim, Germany), Klaus Elian (Alteglofsheim, Germany) and Costin Batrinu (Bucharest, Romania).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An ultrasonic touch sensor includes a touch structure having a touch surface with a plurality of sensitive areas, a pixel array ...