US Patent Issued to Novatek Microelectronics on June 17 for "Touch device, touch driving integrated circuit and operation method" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,115, issued on June 17, was assigned to Novatek Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Touch device, touch driving integrated circuit and operation method" was invented by Yi-Wei Chen (Tainan, Taiwan), Weijen Chang (Tainan, Taiwan) and Chin-Lin Lee (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The touch driving integrated circuit (IC) drives the touch sensing electrodes of a touch panel. The touch driving IC sends an uplink signal to an active stylus on the touch panel through the touch panel. The touch driving IC receives a downlink signal from the active stylus through the touch panel. The touch driving IC decodes the downlin...