US Patent Issued to Japan Display on June 24 for "Touch detection device having a plurality of initial setting distance" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,044, issued on June 24, was assigned to Japan Display Inc. (Tokyo).

"Touch detection device having a plurality of initial setting distance" was invented by Koji Yoshida (Tokyo) and Makoto Ishikawa (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A detection device includes: a sensor region having a detection region; and a detector disposed on a back surface of a front plate that is a nonconductor. The detector is configured to detect an object to be detected on or above a surface of the front plate opposite to the sensor region and overlapping the detection region based on detection values of electrodes in the detection region. The detector inc...