US Patent Issued to SigmaSense on July 15 for "Activation of different subsets of drive-sense circuits in accordance with different modes of operation of a touch-based device" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,628, issued on July 15, was assigned to SigmaSense LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Activation of different subsets of drive-sense circuits in accordance with different modes of operation of a touch-based device" was invented by Daniel Keith Van Ostrand (Leander, Texas), Michael Shawn Gray (Elgin, Texas), Patrick Troy Gray (Cedar Park, Texas) and Richard Stuart Seger Jr. (Belton, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch screen display is operable to operate in a first mode during a first temporal period based on activating exactly one set of drive-sense circuits of a plurality of sets of drive-sense circuits to generate a corresponding one ...