ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,443,308, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to Synaptics Inc. (San Jose, Calif.).
"System and method for parallel sensing in a touch sensor" was invented by Guozhong Shen (Fremont, Calif.) and Katayoun Goudarzi (San Jose, Calif.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An input device includes: a plurality of sensor electrodes disposed in a sensing region of the input device; and a processing system configured to operate a first subset of the plurality of sensor electrodes in a multi-frequency parallel transcapacitive sensing manner to obtain a first capacitive touch profile. Operating the first subset of the plurality of sensor electrodes in the mul...