US Patent Issued to Microchip Technology on Nov. 4 for "Electronic device including a touch detection system and a noise detection system" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,461,627, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Microchip Technology Inc. (Chandler, Ariz.).

"Electronic device including a touch detection system and a noise detection system" was invented by Pitter Liao (Guangdong, China) and Roger Zhu (GuangDong, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electronic device includes a touch detection system and a noise detection system. The touch detection system includes a first capacitive sensing channel, and a touch detection circuitry to perform a series of touch detections based on a capacitance on the first capacitive sensing channel. The noise detection system includes a second capacitive sensing channel...