ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,925, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Electrostatic peripheral communication for touch-sensitive display" was invented by Gilad Pundak (Rehovot, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch-sensitive display device comprises: a first touch-sensitive input device comprising touch-sensitive display including a first plurality of touch-sensing electrodes, and a second touch-sensitive input device including a second plurality of touch-sensing electrodes. A peripheral device uplink controller is configured to receive a command to transmit outgoing computer data from the touch-sensit...