ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,340,041, issued on June 24, was assigned to Sensel Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
"System for detecting and characterizing touch inputs at a human-computer interface" was invented by Jacob Terracina (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Ilya Daniel Rosenberg (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Shuangming Li (Sunnyvale, Calif.), Darren Lochun (Sunnyvale, Calif.) and Tomer Moscovich (Sunnyvale, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system includes: a substrate including an edge supported by a chassis; a first electrode spanning a first area of the substrate and arranged proximal a center of the substrate; and a second electrode spanning a second area, greater than the first...