US Patent Issued to STMICROELECTRONICS INTERNATIONAL on Oct. 14 for "Touch screen display and method of operating the same" (South Korean Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,311, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to STMICROELECTRONICS INTERNATIONAL N.V. (Geneva).

"Touch screen display and method of operating the same" was invented by Hyeok Lim (Incheon, South Korea) and Chan Hyuck Yun (Yongin-si, South Korea).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method for operating an electronic device comprising simultaneously performing a mutual sampling scan on a first portion of a touchscreen and performing a noise sampling scan on a second portion of the touchscreen that is larger than the first portion, detecting noise values from the second portion of the touchscreen, comparing the noise values to a predetermined freque...