ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,551, issued on July 1, was assigned to MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Method and system for touch screen erasing" was invented by Eliyahu Barel (Rosh-HaAyi'n, Israel), On Haran (Kfar Saba, Israel) and Ahia Perez (Ramat gan, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Methods, systems and computer program products provide touch screen erasing. A touch device includes an eraser detector that configured to analyze one or more blobs comprising a plurality of detected signals caused by a conductive pattern in or on an eraser type of touch instrument in proximity to the touch device. Each detected signal may have an associa...