ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,313,431, issued on May 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Surface sensing via resonant sensor" was invented by Jouya Jadidian (Los Gatos, Calif.), Scott Francis Fullam (Palo Alto, Calif.) and Rune Hartung Jensen (Cupertino, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples are disclosed that relate to sensing a position of a surface proximate to a resonant LC sensor. One example provides a method on a sensing device comprising one or more resonant LC sensors each configured to output a signal responsive to a position of a surface proximate to the resonant LC sensor. The method comprises, for each LC se...