US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Aug. 19 for "Method and apparatus for interfacing with a touch sensor" (Swedish, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,393,305, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

"Method and apparatus for interfacing with a touch sensor" was invented by Alexander Hunt (Tygelsjo, Sweden), Mohammed Zourob (London, Canada), Andreas Kristensson (Sodra Sandby, Sweden) and Mohammed Abdulaziz (Lund, Sweden).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An apparatus (40) and method (700) provide power-efficient reading of a touch sensor (10) by performing transform-based reading of the touch sensor (10) according to a read configuration (80) that accounts for touch-surface areas that are indicated as touch targets (68) for receiving touch inp...