ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,044, issued on March 25, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Uplink channel compensation for touchscreen devices" was invented by Ahia Peretz (Ramat Gan, Israel), On Haran (Herzliya, Israel) and Adam Benjamin Meshi (Tel-Aviv, 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 while holding an input device on the strength of a capacitively coupled uplink signal provided to the input device by a host device, by detecting and/or discriminating the body touch and modifying at least one uplink c...