ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,386,472, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to NXP B.V. (Eindhoven, Netherlands).
"Capacitive touch screens" was invented by Frederic Darthenay (Luc sur Mer, France), Jean-Robert Tourret (Cormelles le Royal, France), Franck Goussin (Blainville sur Orne, France) and Vincent Geffroy (Cuverville, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch screen is disclosed having a length and a height, and comprising interspaced and galvanically isolated first and second arrays of touch pads; wherein the first array of touch pads comprises a plurality of first strings of series-connected touch pads, each first string forming a drive line and extending in ...