US Patent Issued to SIGMASENSE on July 15 for "Touch sensor device with differentiated priority sensing region" (Texas Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,360,630, issued on July 15, was assigned to SIGMASENSE LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Touch sensor device with differentiated priority sensing region" was invented by Daniel Keith Van Ostrand (Leander, Texas), Richard Stuart Seger Jr. (Belton, Texas) and Kevin Joseph Derichs (Buda, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A touch sensor device (TSD) includes a panel and drive-sense circuits (DSCs). The panel includes electrodes, and the DSCs are operably coupled to the electrodes. A DSC is operably coupled via a single line to an electrode and is configured to provide a signal via the single line to the electrode and simultaneously to sense the signa...