ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,100, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Stylus uplink enhancement for touchscreen devices" was invented by Eliyahu Barel (Rosh HaAyin, Israel), Arie Yehuda Gur (Kiryat Ono, Israel) and Ilan Geller (Pardesiya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus and method for compensating the effect of a contact by a hand or other body part of a user with a touch screen of a host device while holding an input device on the strength of a capacitively coupled uplink signal provided to the input device (e.g. stylus) by the host device. The compensation is achieved by applying an antiph...