ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,260,022, issued on March 25, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).

"Input device having haptics sensing and corrective device sensing" was invented by Patrick A. Worfolk (San Jose, Calif.) and Stuart W. Hutson (Austin, Texas).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method is provided. The method comprises obtaining, by a processing system and using a piezoelectric device, piezoelectric signals associated with user input on a sensing region of an input device; obtaining, by the processing system and using a corrective device, corrective signals associated with the user input on the sensing region of the input device; determining, by...