ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,491, issued on May 27, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).
"Tracking touchpad touch input" was invented by Molly Jo Gesell (Bothell, Wash.), Tal Bizinsky Tovel (Ramat HaSharon, Israel), Arthur Gershfeld (Holon, Israel), Hila Malihi (Jerusalem), Robert Bryce Johnson (Sammamish, Wash.), Solomon Stone Romney (Bellevue, Wash.), Elizabeth Ann Pina (Lynnwood, Wash.) and Adam Benjamin Meshi (Herzliya, Israel).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computing device comprises a touch sensing touchpad, a processor, and memory storing instructions to detect contacts at the touchpad over a plurality of frames of data. A...