ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,510,971, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to Intel Corp. (Santa Clara, Calif.).

"Touch display computing device with radio frequency touch and gesture recognition" was invented by Hao Luo (Fremont, Calif.), Somnath Kundu (Hillsboro, Ore.), Brent Carlton (Portland, Ore.) and Zhen Zhou (Chandler, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Techniques for radiofrequency (RF) touch and gesture recognition are disclosed. In the illustrative embodiment, RF transmitters and receivers are connected to data lines and gate lines of a display. RF signals sent on one data or gate line may be scattered to a different data or gate line based on the presence o...