US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on Jan. 13 for "Multi touch pads design for moving object detection" (Chinese, Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 13 -- United States Patent no. 12,524,108, issued on Jan. 13, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Multi touch pads design for moving object detection" was invented by Chia Feng Yang (Taoyuan, Taiwan), Wenbin Yang (Shenzhen, China), Dequan Wu (Shenzhen, China), Xinyu Song (Shenzhen, China) and Zhanbing Li (Shenzhen, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products for multi touch pads for object detection are provided. The multi touch pads are each electrically connected via an associated electrode to one or two electrode input ports of an electrostatic sensor. When a touch pad is touched a volt...