US Patent Issued to SIGMASENSE on March 4 for "Touch sensitive panel supporting capacitively coupled identification code" (Texas, Arizona Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,242,699, issued on March 4, was assigned to SIGMASENSE LLC (Austin, Texas).

"Touch sensitive panel supporting capacitively coupled identification code" was invented by Richard Stuart Seger Jr. (Belton, Texas), Michael Shawn Gray (Elgin, Texas), Daniel Keith Van Ostrand (Leander, Texas), Patrick Troy Gray (Cedar Park, Texas) and Timothy W. Markison (Mesa, Ariz.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for use in a touch-sensitive panel includes generating electric fields by applying drive signals to a plurality of row electrodes and a plurality of column electrodes included in the touch-sensitive panel, and sensing at least one information...