US Patent Issued to Lenovo (Singapore) on Sept. 30 for "Fingernail detection at haptic touchpad buttons" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,978, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. (Singapore).

"Fingernail detection at haptic touchpad buttons" was invented by XinMei Yang (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for detecting a click on a touchpad. The method includes obtaining a baseline sensitivity touch signal from a touch sensor of the touchpad, measuring a first amplitude of the baseline sensitivity touch signal, comparing the first amplitude to a first amplitude threshold, and activating a high-sensitivity mode in response to the first amplitude being lower than the first amplitude threshold. In the high-sensitivity mode...