US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on July 8 for "Method and apparatus for interfacing with a touch sensor" (Swedish, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,353,660, issued on July 8, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for reading the columns and rows of a touch sensor provides several advantages, including scalability to touch sensors with high column/row counts. Reading the touch sensor relies on combining the row or column outputs of the touch sensor, during column and...