US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Dec. 2 for "Touch classifier system using context data" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,487,742, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Touch classifier system using context data" was invented by Uri Ron (Kfar Saba, Israel), Shoham Dekel (Tel Aviv, Israel) and Gilad Pundak (Rehovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method to provide classified touch data to a computer program executing on a device comprises: (a) assembling a map of touch signal from a touch sensor arranged on an electronic display and including a plurality of crossings of row and column electrodes, the map including a corresponding touch-signal value for each of the plurality of crossings, and defining ...