ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,333,112, issued on June 17, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"System and method for parallel touch sensing" was invented by Guozhong Shen (Fremont, Calif.), Tom Vandermeijden (San Jose, Calif.) and Ching-Hsung Wang (Santa Clara, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method for capacitive sensing using an input device are provided. The input device includes a display, a touch sensor and a processing system. The touch sensor has a plurality of transmitter electrodes with a first subset of positive transmitter electrodes driven by a positive sensing signal and a second subset of negative transmitter electrodes...