US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Aug. 5 for "Keyboard for touch-sensitive display device" (Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,788, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Keyboard for touch-sensitive display device" was invented by Henri A. Autio (Redmond, Wash.) and Joni Kristian Arola (Redmond, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples are disclosed that relate to a keyboard for a touch-sensitive display device. One example provides a touch-sensitive display device comprising a touch sensor, a display, a wireless receiver, a logic subsystem, and a storage subsystem. The storage subsystem comprises instructions executable by the logic subsystem to, in a first mode in which a keyboard satisfies a detection ...