ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,314, issued on April 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Touch screen display with virtual trackpad" was invented by Matan Slassi (Tel Aviv, Israel), Dmitry Birenberg (Rosh Ha Ayin, Israel), Gilad Pundak (Rehovot, Israel), Nadav Linenberg (Even Yehuda, Israel) and Andrew Pyon Mittereder (Seattle).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples are disclosed relating to computing devices and methods for performing touch detection within a virtual trackpad area of a touch screen display. In one example, a non-trackpad touch input signal is received from outside the virtual trackpad area and processed with at...