US Patent Issued to STMicroelectronics International on March 18 for "Palm rejection method for active pens and touch screen devices" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,254,156, issued on March 18, was assigned to STMicroelectronics International N.V. (Geneva).

"Palm rejection method for active pens and touch screen devices" was invented by Bin Fan (Baishan Town, China) and Pengcheng Wen (Beijing).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of operating a touch screen panel includes initiating a communication between the panel and an active pen and determining a touch zone of the panel. The touch zone includes communication channels that are operating by touch while bi-directional communication is occurring between the panel and active pen. Communications channels within the touch zone are disabled and comm...