US Patent Issued to NOVATEK Microelectronics on May 27 for "Knob on touch panel and related control circuit" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,314,493, issued on May 27, was assigned to NOVATEK Microelectronics Corp. (Hsin-Chu, Taiwan).

"Knob on touch panel and related control circuit" 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 on a touch panel includes a plurality of sensing electrodes and at least one conducting wire. The at least one conducting wire is coupled between the plurality of sensing electrodes. Wherein, the plurality of sensing electrodes are separated by a plurality of gaps, and the size of a first gap among the plurality of gaps is different from ...