US Patent Issued to Microsoft Technology Licensing on Sept. 30 for "Touch surface force determination" (Israeli Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,429,951, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Redmond, Wash.).

"Touch surface force determination" was invented by Eliyahu Barel (Rosh-HaAyin, Israel).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Computing devices and methods for determining a force applied to a user input device are disclosed. In one example, a computing device comprises a user input device comprising a touch surface, a haptic actuator coupled to the touch surface, and an accelerometer coupled to the touch surface. The computing device receives a touch input from the touch surface and drives the haptic actuator with a force detection driving signal ...