ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,455,659, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Noise compensation using a spatial noise model" was invented by Matan Slassi (Herzelyia, Israel), Lior Zagiel (Tel-Aviv, Israel), Nadav Linenberg (Even Yehuda, Israel), Assaf Cohen (Modiin, Israel), Arie Yehuda Gur (Kiryat Ono, Israel), Netanel Hadad (Lod, Israel) and Tal Aviv (Tel-Aviv, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Examples are disclosed relating to noise compensation ratios in a spatial noise model to compensate for noise in a frame of touch sensor data. One example provides a computing device comprising a display, a touch sensor,...