US Patent Issued to Novatek Microelectronics on March 25 for "Knob apparatus and operation method thereof" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,032, issued on March 25, was assigned to Novatek Microelectronics Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Knob apparatus and operation method thereof" was invented by Chun Yuan Liu (Tainan, Taiwan), Yun-Hsiang Yeh (Hsinchu, Taiwan) and Yen-Heng Chen (Hsinchu County, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A knob apparatus includes a touch panel, a touch-sensing controller, and a knob. The touch panel has multiple touch-sensing electrodes. The touch-sensing controller is coupled to the touch-sensing electrodes of the touch panel. The touch-sensing controller detects a touch event of the touch panel through the touch-sensing electrodes. The knob has ...