US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on April 15 for "Touchpad force calculation using no-touch capacitance" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,277,290, issued on April 15, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Touchpad force calculation using no-touch capacitance" was invented by Ahia Peretz (Elkana, Israel), On Haran (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Lior Zagiel (Tel Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods and computing devices for estimating a force F exerted on a touchpad are disclosed. In one example, a method comprises determining that the touchpad is not being touched. At least on condition of determining that the touchpad is not being touched, a no-touch capacitance value of the PCB is calculated. After calculating the no-touch capacitanc...