US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on July 1 for "Secure transmission of touch data using a device-specific calibration map" (Israeli Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,346,523, issued on July 1, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Secure transmission of touch data using a device-specific calibration map" was invented by Roei Shlomo Menashof (Netanya, Israel), Anatoly Tsvetov (Kfar-Yona, Israel) and Oren Istrin (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for secure handling of touch data includes receiving touch data from a digitizer sensor in response to a user interaction with a touch surface; transmitting the touch data from a first processor of a digitizer system to a second processor of a host system without removing a noise signature of the digitizer ...