US Patent Issued to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR on May 6 for "Waterproof-state recognition and processing method and device applicable to capacitive touch screen" (Chinese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,293,036, issued on May 6, was assigned to REALTEK SEMICONDUCTOR Corp. (Hsinchu, Taiwan).

"Waterproof-state recognition and processing method and device applicable to capacitive touch screen" was invented by Xiao-Wei Bian (Suzhou, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waterproof-state recognition and processing method and device is applicable to a capacitive touch screen. The method and device can differentiate a water-affected region from a water-free region, and allow a touch-responding operation for the water-free region when the water-affected region exists. The method includes: scanning the screen to obtain data of multiple channels...