US Patent Issued to Lenovo (United States) on Oct. 28 for "Method and system for force-aided touchpad noise rejection" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,656, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Lenovo (United States) Inc. (Morrisville, N.C.).

"Method and system for force-aided touchpad noise rejection" was invented by XinMei Yang (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touchpad system including a touchpad and a touch controller. The touchpad includes a plurality of force sensors and a touch sensor. The touch controller is in electrical communication with the touchpad and is configured to obtain a touch signal from the touch sensor and determine a signal-to-noise ratio of the touch signal. The touch controller is further configured to determine whether to enter a high noise m...