ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,216,854, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Online tuning of a touch device processing algorithm" was invented by Gilad Pundak (Rehovot, Israel) and Hanan Grinberg (Ramat-Gan, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described herein related to online tuning of pen characterizations. Online tuning may be performed during use of a pen with a touch device. A digitizer may detect signals associated with the pen and noise. A touch controller may execute a signal characterization model that characterizes the detected signals and an online tuner that p...