US Patent Issued to iSO-FORM on Sept. 16 for "Self-capacitance device for object recognition on capacitance touchscreen" (Iowa Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,416,988, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to iSO-FORM LLC (Ames, Iowa).

"Self-capacitance device for object recognition on capacitance touchscreen" was invented by Russell W. Adams (Ankeny, Iowa).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Disclosed herein are various embodiments of a self-capacitance device that is configured to be detectable by a known touchscreen without the need for human contact. Such a device has a device body, a capacitance structure disposed within the body, and at least three contacts disposed on one side of the body and electrically coupled to the capacitance structure. Further disclosed herein are systems having at least t...