ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,321, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Primax Electronics Ltd. (Taipei, Taiwan).
"Touchpad module" was invented by Wei-Chiang Huang (Taipei, Taiwan), Wei-Ping Chan (Taipei, Taiwan), Hsueh-Chao Chang (Taipei, Taiwan), Chieh-Hung Hsieh (Taipei, Taiwan) and Chia-Ming Huang (Taipei, Taiwan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touchpad module includes a support member, a printed circuit board assembly (PCBA) and an elastic member. The support member has a protruding portion. The printed circuit board assembly is located over the support member and includes a capacitive sensing element corresponding to the protruding portion of the support me...