US Patent Issued to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions on Nov. 25 for "Touch sensitive payment vehicle detection system" (Taiwanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,481,972, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to Toshiba Global Commerce Solutions Inc. (Durham, N.C.).

"Touch sensitive payment vehicle detection system" was invented by Hsuan Wei-Yi (Taipei, Taiwan), Yi-Hsin Huang (Taipei, Taiwan), Ying-Chi Chou (Chiayi, Taiwan) and Wen-Fu Tsai (New Taipei, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A Projected Capacitive (PCAP) display including multiple arrays of conductive electrodes performs a dual function. In a first function, the PCAP display uses the conductive electrode arrays to generate an electrostatic field and determines the presence and position of a conductive object based on small changes it det...