ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,050, issued on June 24, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).

"Sensor system, method for driving sensor module and storage medium" was invented by Takayuki Nakanishi (Tokyo), Yuto Kakinoki (Tokyo) and Tadashi Hanegi (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sensor system according to an embodiment includes: a noncontact sensor module arranged on a display module; and a processor configured to drive the sensor module, wherein the sensor module is configured to detect a first coordinate and a second coordinate of a detection target, the second coordinate is detected before the first coordinate is detected, the processor i...