ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,379,275, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Touchpad force determinations" was invented by Shiran Barnea (Herzliya, Israel), Ahia Peretz (Elkana, Israel) and On Haran (Kfar Saba, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Touchpads, computing devices, and methods for estimating a plurality of forces exerted by a plurality of contacts on a touchpad are disclosed. In one example, a method comprises estimating a plurality of forces exerted by a plurality of contacts at a plurality of touch locations on a touchpad. For each contact, a plurality of assigned calibration weights are determined from...