ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,549,656, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to InterDigital Patent Holdings Inc. (Wilmington, Del.).

"Method, apparatus and device for identifying water ingress risk of terminal, and storage medium" was invented by Xiaoliang Zhang (Shenzhen, China) and Yigang Feng (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and apparatus for identifying a water ingress risk of a terminal, a device and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: respectively acquiring a first variation amount of a capacitance signal of a capacitive touch screen caused by connection between a ground wire on the surface of a housing of a smart terminal and...