US Patent Issued to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson on Oct. 21 for "Method and apparatus for performing partial reads of a touch sensor" (Swedish, Canadian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,449,932, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ) (Stockholm).

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

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A technique for performing partial reads of a touch sensor (10) provides several advantages, including scalability to touch sensors with high sensing-line counts, and reductions in operating power. The technique involves identifying a region (46) of the touch surface (12) of the tou...