ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 29 -- United States Patent no. 12,209,889, issued on Jan. 28, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS FRANCE (Montrouge, France), STMicroelectronics (Grenoble 2) SAS (Grenoble, France) and STMicroelectronics (Rousset) SAS (Rousset, France).
"Device and method for touch sensing" was invented by Laurent Beyly (Chasne sur illet, France), Olivier Richard (Saint-Sauveur, France) and Kenichi Oku (Grasse, France).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An embodiment of the present disclosure relates to a method of detection of a touch contact by a sensor including a first step of comparison of a voltage with a first voltage threshold; and a second step of comparison of the voltage with a seco...