ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,645, issued on July 15, was assigned to PANASONIC INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT Co. LTD. (Osaka, Japan).
"Touch sensor" was invented by Ryo Yamaguchi (Osaka Fu, Japan) and Yuji Nonami (Okayama Ken, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first mesh pattern (13) of a touch sensor (1) includes first cells (15) in a diamond shape with an acute angle (A1). A second mesh pattern (16) of the touch sensor (1) includes second cells (18) in a square shape. The acute angle (A1) ranges from 50deg to 65deg. One of second thin wires (17) of each second cell (18) and the longer diagonal line 15a of associated one of the first cells (15) form an ...