ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,118, issued on April 8, was assigned to Peratech IP Ltd (North Yorkshire, Great Britain).

"Classifying pressure inputs" was invented by Timothy Peter Wiles (North Yorkshire, Great Britain).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of classifying pressure inputs in a sensing array, in which the sensing array comprises a plurality of sensing elements responsive to pressure inputs is described. The method comprises steps of identifying a plurality of pressure inputs in the sensing array and converting the plurality of pressure inputs into an output image. The output image is compared with a data set comprising a plurality of images of unde...