US Patent Issued to Sharp Display Technology on April 22 for "Touch panel system and display device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,282,621, issued on April 22, was assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corp. (Kameyama, Japan).

"Touch panel system and display device" was invented by Takenori Maruyama (Kameyama, Japan), Shinji Yamagishi (Kameyama, Japan), Takuma Yamamoto (Kameyama, Japan), Kazutoshi Kida (Kameyama, Japan), Yasuhiro Sugita (Kameyama, Japan) and Hiroshi Fukushima (Kameyama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch panel system includes a touch panel including a drive electrode, a position detection electrode, and a pressure detection electrode, and a controller configured to impart a drive signal to the drive electrode and acquire a signal value from ...