US Patent Issued to Sharp Display Technology on Sept. 16 for "Capacitive touch panel and display device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,417,000, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Sharp Display Technology Corp. (Kameyama, Japan).

"Capacitive touch panel and display device" was invented by Takenori Maruyama (Kameyama, Japan), Kazutoshi Kida (Kameyama, Japan), Shinji Yamagishi (Kameyama, Japan), Takuma Yamamoto (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 includes: a drive electrode supplied with a drive signal; a position detecting electrode detecting a position included in a touch surface and touched with a pointing object, and a pressure detecting electrode detecting pressure a...