US Patent Issued to Renesas Electronics America on April 15 for "Display screen position sensing using inductive sensing" (California, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,276,532, issued on April 15, was assigned to Renesas Electronics America Inc. (Milpitas, Calif.).

"Display screen position sensing using inductive sensing" was invented by Gustavo James Mehas (Mercer Island, Wash.), Damla Acar (La Mesa, Calif.), Ashley De Wolfe (San Diego), Pooja Agrawal (Milpitas, Calif.) and Nicholaus Wayne Smith (La Mesa, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and a system may inductively determine a position of a display screen of a computing device. Associated processes may generate a magnetic field by providing an alternating current to a driver coil, and may generate a voltage at a sensor coil in response t...